In the 1960s and 1970s, the radical and visionary ideas of R. D. Laing revolutionized thinking about psychiatric practice and the meaning of madness. His work, from The Divided Self to Knots, and his therapeutic community at Kingsley Hall, made him a household name. R.D. Laing and the Paths of Anti-Psychiatry re-examines Laing's work in the context of the anti-psychiatry movement.
Key Features
- Provides a reasoned critique of Laing's theoretical writings.
- Investigates the influences on his thinking, including phenomenology, existentialism, and American family interaction research.
- Considers the experimental Kingsley Hall therapeutic community in comparison with anti-psychiatry experiments in Germany and Italy.
- Offers a much needed reassessment and re-evaluation of Laing's work and its significance for psychotherapy and psychiatry today.
Additional Information
After little more than a decade, Laing faded from prominence as quickly as he had attained it. This book concentrates on his most productive decade.
