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This chapter discusses the life and works of R.D. Laing, one of the most controversial figures in the history of psychiatry and whose ill-fated experiment, Kingsley Hall, served as the inspiration for the much more successful Soteria House in the United States.
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- 1.
Bob Mullan, Mad to be Normal: Conversations With R.D. Laing (London: Free Association Books, 1995), 3.
- 2.
Mullan, Mad to be Normal, 110.
- 3.
Ronald David Laing, Wisdom, Madness, and Folly: The Making of a Psychiatrist (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1985), 87.
- 4.
Mullan, Mad to be Normal, 65; Laing, Wisdom, Madness and Folly, 86–87.
- 5.
Mullan, Mad to be Normal, 70–72.
- 6.
Laing, Wisdom, Madness, and Folly, 91–92.
- 7.
Ibid., 107–108.
- 8.
Ibid., 123.
- 9.
Mullan, Mad to be Normal, 124.
- 10.
Laing, Wisdom, Madness, and Folly, 148–151.
- 11.
Ibid., 150–151.
- 12.
Ibid., 32–33.
- 13.
Ibid., 152.
- 14.
Ibid., 152–154.
- 15.
Ibid., 154–155.
- 16.
Ibid., 155.
- 17.
Ibid., 182–183.
- 18.
Ibid., 181–182.
- 19.
Ibid., 183–184.
- 20.
Ibid., 187.
- 21.
Ibid., 187.
- 22.
Ibid., 187–188.
- 23.
Mullan, Mad to be Normal, 143, 169.
- 24.
Third Mind Productions, Did You Used to be R.D. Laing? Channel 4, October 3, 1989.
- 25.
Ibid.
- 26.
R.D. Laing, Interview by Gregory Jackson, CBS Cable, 1982.
- 27.
Mullan, Mad to Be Normal, 168–169.
- 28.
Ibid., 172.
- 29.
Ibid., 175.
- 30.
Ibid., 176–178.
- 31.
Ibid., 181.
- 32.
Ibid., 189.
- 33.
Ibid., 180–181.
- 34.
Ibid., 179.
- 35.
Ibid., 228.
- 36.
In his book Shrinks, former APA President Jeffrey Lieberman states that psychiatrist E. Fuller Torrey told him “People who knew Laing told me that he became a guy asking for money by giving lectures on ideas he no longer believed in.” Not a shred of evidence is adduced to corroborate this third-hand accusation against a dead man. The same third-hand accusation is leveled against the late Thomas Szasz, again without a shred of corroborating evidence. Lieberman, Shrinks, 113.
- 37.
Elizabeth Day and Graham Keeley, “My Father R.D. Laing: He Solved Other People’s Problems But Not His Own,” Guardian, May 31, 2008, https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/jun/01/mentalhealth.society
- 38.
Ibid.
- 39.
Ibid.
- 40.
Ibid.
- 41.
Ibid.
- 42.
Mullan, Mad to be Normal, 276.
- 43.
Russell Miller, “R.D. Laing: The Abominable Family Man,” Sunday Times, April 12, 2009, https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/rd-laing-the-abominable-family-man-mqkbxw8jj2x
- 44.
Third Mind Productions, Did You Used to be R.D. Laing?
- 45.
Day and Keeley, “My Father R.D. Laing.”
- 46.
Miller, “Abominable Family Man.”
- 47.
Ibid.
- 48.
Mullan, Mad to be Normal, 202.
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Hahn, P.D. (2019). Ronald Laing and Kingsley Hall. In: Madness and Genetic Determinism. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21866-9_12
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