R.D. Laing
Personal Info:
KNOWN FOR
Acting
GENDER
male
BIRTHDAY
1927-10-07
DAY OF DEATH
1989-08-23
PLACE OF BIRTH
Govanhill, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
R.D. Laing
BIOGRAPHY
Ronald David Laing, usually cited as R. D. Laing, was a Scottish psychiatrist who wrote extensively on mental illness – in particular, the experience of psychosis. Laing's views on the causes and treatment of serious mental dysfunction, greatly influenced by existential philosophy, ran counter to the psychiatric orthodoxy of the day by taking the expressed feelings of the individual patient or client as valid descriptions of lived experience rather than simply as symptoms of some separate or underlying disorder.
POPULAR MOVIES
TV SHOWS APPEARANCE
acting
- 2011
- 1975
- 1972
- 1969
- 1968
- 1967
writing
- 2012
- 1975