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.

Known For

Ah, Sunflower
Ah, Sunflower
Asylum
Asylum
All Divided Selves
All Divided Selves
Did You Used to Be R.D. Laing?
Did You Used to Be R.D. Laing?
Cain's Film
Cain's Film
Arthur Janov's Primal Therapy
Arthur Janov's Primal Therapy

Filmography

2018 Arthur Janov's Primal Therapy
as
2012 All Divided Selves
as
2011 Great Thinkers: In Their Own Words
as Self (archive footage)
1989 Did You Used to Be R.D. Laing?
as
1975 Knots
as Man watching rehearsal
1972 Asylum
as Himself
1969 Cain's Film
as
1968 The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest
1967 New Tempo: Stimulants
as
1967 Ah, Sunflower
as Self