R. D. Laing

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title: R. D. Laing
text: Ronald David Laing, usually cited as R. D. Laing, was a Scottish psychiatrist who wrote extensively on mental illness—in particular, psychosis and schizophrenia. Laing's views on the causes and treatment of psychopathological phenomena were influenced by his study of existential philosophy and ran counter to the chemical and electroshock methods that had become psychiatric orthodoxy. Laing took the expressed feelings of the individual patient or client as valid descriptions of personal experienc
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description: Unorthodox Scottish psychiatrist
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date created: 2003-09-05T01:30:12Z
date modified: 2024-09-04T15:58:27Z
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