R D Laing Contemporary Perspectives

This unique volume aims to re-establish R. D. Laing's position, and reputation, as the major critic of orthodox, medically-based psychiatry. Laing's complex personality enabled powerful figures in the British psychiatric establishment to malign him when he was at the height of his fame, largely because Laing's ideas, and public posture posed a formidable threat to their medical authority. Additionally Laing's theories of schizophrenia had been powerfully aided "by the distinguished cultural and philosophical apparatus in which they reposed". Subsequent events have proved Sedgwick right, and this book is a record of continuing developments (in theory and practice) of the main corpus of Laing's work, and an adumbration of likely future developments. The disciplines involved cover, or implicate, such distinct areas of intellectual inquiry as psychiatry (including neurobiology), psychotherapy, philosophy and anthropology.Raschid, Salman is the author of 'R D Laing Contemporary Perspectives', published 0009 under ISBN 9781853437014 and ISBN 1853437018.