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R. D. Laing
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unorthodox Scottish psychiatrist
OverviewAI-generated
R. D. Laing was a Scottish male author and public figure. Born on October 7, 1927, he died on August 23, 1989. His literary output includes works such as *The politics of experience* and *Intervention in social situations*. Other titles associated with his name include *Ḳolah shel ha-ḥaṿayah*, *הטרוף*, *שפיות הדעת והמשפחה*, and *レイン わが 半生*.
Laing’s writings have been referenced by 622 other encyclopedia articles. A quote attributed to him states that alienation as a present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.
Synthesized by Vinony from 17 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, Wikiquote, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1927
- Died
- 1989
- Works
- 91
Top works
- Ḳolah shel ha-ḥaṿayah
- The politics of experience
- הטרוף, שפיות הדעת והמשפחה
- レイン わが 半生
- Intervention in social situations
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Scotland
- Active from
- 1927-10-07
- Active to
- 1989-08-23
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 18
- Total plays
- 167
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Ronald
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Glasgow
- Place of death
- Saint-Tropez
- Occupation
- psychoanalyst
- Educated at
- University of Glasgow
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- psychiatry
- Military branch
- British Army
- Image
- Ronald D. Laing.jpg
Show 7 more facts
- date of birth
- 1927-10-07
- date of death
- 1989-08-23
- Commons category
- Ronald David Laing
- manner of death
- natural causes
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- name in native language
- Ronald David Laing
- influenced by
- Jean-Paul Sartre
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Encyclopedic overview
Ronald David Laing (7 October 1927 – 23 August 1989), usually cited as R. D. Laing, was a Scottish psychiatrist who wrote extensively on mental illness, particularly psychosis and schizophrenia. Politically, Laing was regarded as a thinker of the New Left. He has been theatrically portrayed by Mike Maran, Alan Cox, Billy Mack, and David Tennant in the 2017 film Mad to Be Normal.
Laing's views on the causes and treatment of psychopathological phenomena were influenced by his study of existential philosophy and ran counter to the chemical and electroshock methods that had become psychiatric orthodoxy. Laing took the expressed feelings of the individual patient or client as valid descriptions of personal experience rather than simply as symptoms of mental illness. Although associated in the public mind with the anti-psychiatry movement, he rejected the label. Laing regarded schizophrenia as the normal psychological adjustment to a dysfunctional social context.
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