R. D. Laing (1927–1989)
Autor(a) de The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness
About the Author
Ronald David Laing, a prominent British psychoanalyst, won wide attention in the United States, especially among young people, for his questioning of many of the old concepts of what is "normal" and what is "insane" in a world that he sees as infinitely dangerous in the hands of "normal" people. mostrar mais Born and educated in Glasgow, Scotland, Laing questioned many of the basic assumptions of Western culture. Taking the role of social critic, he wrote in The Politics of Experience (1967): "A little girl of seventeen in a mental hospital told me she was terrified because the Atom Bomb was inside her. That is a delusion. The statesmen of the world who boast and threaten that they have Doomsday weapons are far more dangerous, and far more estranged from "reality' than many of the people on whom the label "psychotic' is affixed." Much of Laing's work was in the field of schizophrenia. Philosophical and humanist in approach, he questioned many of the cut-and-dried classifications for the mentally ill, whom he regarded with great compassion; he looked beyond the "case" to the man or woman trying to come to grips with life in the broadest human context. He was a compelling writer of great literary skill who brought to his studies a worldview that reached far beyond the confines of his profession. Until his death, Laing continued to expand on his early themes, which are also evident in his poetry, interviews, and conversations with children. mostrar menos
Image credit: Ronald David Laing (1927-1989) Photo by Robert E. Haraldsen, 1983
Obras por R. D. Laing
R.D. Laing 2 exemplares
R. D. LAING BOOKS (3) : Knots, Politics of Experience, Self and Others (Set of 3 books) 2 exemplares
Dialettica della famiglia. Genesi, struttura e dinamica di un'istituzione repressiva (1974) — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Podeljeno ja ; Politika doživljaja 1 exemplar
Asylum 1 exemplar
I fatti della vita 1 exemplar
Do You Really Love Me? 1 exemplar
The Order of Things 1 exemplar
Knots by R. D. Laing (1970-06-06) 1 exemplar
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Conhecimento Comum
- Nome canónico
- Laing, R. D.
- Nome legal
- Laing, Ronald David
- Data de nascimento
- 1927-10-07
- Data de falecimento
- 1989-08-23
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- UK
- País (no mapa)
- Scotland, UK
- Local de nascimento
- Govanhill, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
- Local de falecimento
- Saint-Tropez, France
- Causa da morte
- heart attack
- Locais de residência
- London, England, UK
- Educação
- University of Glasgow (MD|1951)
Tavistock Clinic - Ocupações
- psychiatrist in the British army, at the Glasgow royal mental hospital.
director of Langham Clinic - Organizações
- Philadelphia Association
British Army
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 34
- Also by
- 2
- Membros
- 4,951
- Popularidade
- #5,072
- Avaliação
- 3.8
- Críticas
- 42
- ISBN
- 205
- Línguas
- 13
- Marcado como favorito
- 13
If you work as a therapist, I would suggest this is a must-read, even if you take issue with Laing's ideas about schizophrenia. Psychiatrists, on the other hand, shouldn't read it, because it will upset them if they don't credit his viewpoint, and upset them even more if they do.
Among its flaws, it does get a little too caught up still with psychiatric concepts and speculation that aren't rooted in phenomenology, but he makes a very good attempt to bring the latter to bear on his case material. And in places he's a somewhat repetitive writer - but that also helps to solidify the ideas he's trying to get across.
Overall, in this book he sounds like someone you'd like to have at your side if your mind really took a wander off the beaten track - with his apparent capacity for patient and careful listening and fearless compassion. I imagine very few psychiatrists of his day would have had the time, courage or skills for that, and even less so nowadays in their hyper-pharmacological paradigm of trying to quickly anaesthetise mental and existential distress with pills.
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