R.D. Laing
Born: 1927-10-07 in Govanhill, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Died: 1989-08-23
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2012
2011
- Great Thinkers: In Their Own Words as Self (archive footage)
1975
- Knots as Man watching rehearsal
1972
- Asylum as Himself
1969
1968
- The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
1967
- Ah, Sunflower as Self
- New Tempo: Stimulants