R. D. Laing Quote
Schizophrenic behaviour is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.
R. D. Laing
Schizophrenic behaviour is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.
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About R. D. Laing
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—in particular, psychosis and schizophrenia. 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. Though 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, although later in life he revised his views.
Politically, Laing was regarded as a thinker of the New Left.
Laing was portrayed by David Tennant in the 2017 film Mad to Be Normal.
Politically, Laing was regarded as a thinker of the New Left.
Laing was portrayed by David Tennant in the 2017 film Mad to Be Normal.