Laing was one of the most controversial and innovative psychiatrists of modern times. Written by his son, this is the first comprehensive, candid, and objective biography of the pioneer psychologist and guru who died in 1989. This definitive study discusses Laing's successes and failures, his troubled personal life, his decline and use of alcohol and drugs. - Publishers Weekly calls the book a sad, revelatory portrait.""A thorough assessment of his work is included, based on the author's years of research and interviews with Laing's close associates. In the mid-60s, he became famous for his experiments with LSD. In the `70s he studied Zen Buddhism, published poetry, recorded an LP, and ran rebirthing workshops in Europe, Britain, and the US. These activities made him a guru of radical chic. ""He did what no other succeeded in doing in this era of mass communication. He gave a voice to madness."" - Psychiatric Bulletin.

R.D. Laing: A Biography

Biographies & Memoirs

Laing, Adrian Charles

Arts & Literature

Peter Owen Ltd

<p>R.D. Laing, author of "The Divided Self and Knots", was the best-known and most influential psychiatrist of modern times. In this remarkable biography, the only one to be written by a close relative, Laing's son tells the story of his father's life and examines the foundations of his pioneering and unorthodox work on madness and the family. R.D. Laing became famous in the mid 1960s when he co-founded the therapeutic community Kingsley Hall and began his experiments with the therapeutic use of LSD. In the 1970s, Laing studied Zen Buddhism, published poetry, recorded an LP and ran rebirthing workshops across the world - activities which turned him into a guru of radical chic. Yet despite his astonishing empathy with the disturbed, Laing failed to address his own family problems and on the professional side, his practices ultimately led to voluntary disassociation from the medical establishment itself. Adrian Laing's biography, fully updated and with a new foreword, is a brutally honest, sensitive and revelatory portrait of his father's life, as well as a balanced, objective portrait of a troubled genius who changed for ever the way in which the insane are viewed by society and the way they are treated.</p>

R.D. Laing: A Life

Sutton Pub Ltd

<p>Laing was one of the most controversial and innovative psychiatrists of modern times. Written by his son, this is the first comprehensive, candid, and objective biography of the pioneer psychologist and guru who died in 1989. This definitive study discusses Laing's successes and failures, his troubled personal life, his decline and use of alcohol and drugs. - Publishers Weekly calls the book a sad, revelatory portrait.""A thorough assessment of his work is included, based on the author's years of research and interviews with Laing's close associates. In the mid-60s, he became famous for his experiments with LSD. In the `70s he studied Zen Buddhism, published poetry, recorded an LP, and ran rebirthing workshops in Europe, Britain, and the US. These activities made him a guru of radical chic. ""He did what no other succeeded in doing in this era of mass communication. He gave a voice to madness."" - Psychiatric Bulletin.</p>

Thunder's Mouth Pr

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R.D. Laing: A Biography

R.D. Laing: A Life

R.D. Laing: A Biography