Personal Info
Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
October 7, 1927
Place of Birth:
Govanhill, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
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R.D. Laing
Biography
Ronald David Laing, usually cited as R. D. Laing, was a Scottish psychiatrist who wrote extensively on mental illness – in particular, the experience of psychosis. Laing's views on the causes and treatment of serious mental dysfunction, greatly influenced by existential philosophy, ran counter to the psychiatric orthodoxy of the day by taking the expressed feelings of the individual patient or client as valid descriptions of lived experience rather than simply as symptoms of some separate or underlying disorder.
Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Arthur Janov's Primal Therapy | |
| 2012 | All Divided Selves | |
| 1989 | Did You Used to Be R.D. Laing? | |
| 1975 | Knots | Man watching rehearsal |
| 1972 | Asylum | Himself |
| 1969 | Cain's Film | |
| 1967 | Ah, Sunflower | Self |
| 1967 | New Tempo: Stimulants |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Great Thinkers: In Their Own Words | Self (archive footage) |
| 1968 | The Dick Cavett Show | Self - Guest |