R. D. Laing

Ronald David Laing (October 7, 1927–August 23,

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October 7 - 1927 - August 23

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1989), was a British psychiatrist who wrote extensively on mental illness and particularly the experience of psychosis. He is noted for

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1989 - British - Psychiatrist - Mental illness - Psychosis

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his views, influenced by existential philosophy, on the causes and treatment of mental illness, which went against the psychiatric orthodoxy of the time. He is often associated with the anti-psychiatry movement although, like many of his contemporaries also critical of psychiatry, he himself rejected this label.

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Existential - Philosophy - Anti-psychiatry

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