Ronald D. Laing
Scottish psychiatrist and author
Ronald D. Laing was a Scottish psychiatrist who wrote about mental illness, especially psychosis and schizophrenia. He is the author of The Divided Self.
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British Born 1927 in Glasgow, United Kingdom Died 1989
About Ronald D. Laing
Ronald David Laing was born in 1927 and became a Scottish psychiatrist. His ideas drew on existential philosophy and went against the chemical and electroshock treatments that had become standard in psychiatry. He treated what patients said about their feelings as real descriptions of their experience, not merely as symptoms. His name is linked with the anti-psychiatry movement, though he rejected that label. His writing ranged from a collection of sonnets to psychological and sociological works. The Divided Self is the book of his in our catalog.