R.D. Laing

R.D. Laing“We are living in an age in which the ground is shifting and the foundations are shaking. I cannot answer for other times and places. Perhaps it has always been so. We know it is true today.” (1990a, p. 108). Laing, R.D. 1990a. The Politics of Experience and The Bird of Paradise. London: Penguin.

Links

  • Article: “How a rebellious introvert grew up to become an iconoclastic psychiatrist, and how he ultimately fell from grace” by Perry Meisel. Based on The Wing of Madnss: The Life and Work of R. D. Laing by Daniel Burston, 275pp. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
  • Listing of related sites from the Unofficial R.D. Laing Website

Publications

  • (1968) ‘The Obvious’, in The Dialectics of Liberation. pp. 13-33. Edited by David Cooper. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books Ltd.
  • (1974) Knots. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books Ltd.
  • (1974) Sanity, Madness and the Family. (with A. Esterson) Harmondsworth: Penguin Books Ltd.
  • (1976) The Politics of the Family and Other Essays. New York: Random House.
  • (1990) The Divided Self. London: Penguin Books Ltd.
  • (1990) The Politics of Experience and The Bird of Paradise. London: Penguin Books Ltd.
  • (1991) Self and Others Penguin Books Ltd.