About

Known credits:
10
Birthday:
1927-10-07
Place of birth:
Govanhill, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
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R.D. Laing

Overview

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

Acting
2018 Arthur Janov's Primal Therapy Actor 59
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2012 All Divided Selves Actor N/A
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1989 Did You Used to Be R.D. Laing? Actor N/A
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1975 Knots Actor Man watching rehearsal 59
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1972 Asylum Actor Himself 59
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1969 Cain's Film Actor N/A
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1967 New Tempo: Stimulants Actor N/A
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1967 Ah, Sunflower Actor Self N/A
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Writing
2012 All Divided Selves Writing Writer N/A
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1975 Knots Writing Book 59
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