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Laing: A Life' was the first, the most intensively researched and widely acclaimed biography of the Scottish writer, doctor, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and existential therapist RD

Laing, written by his second son Adrian.


As a critically acclaimed biography it continues to set the pace to this day,
RD Laing's extensive work as an existential therapist, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and philosopher continues to engage with each new generation since the publication of his first work: 'The Divided Self' in.


Fame and notoriety followed RD Laing in equal measure, fuelled to a large extent by the LSD therapy sessions in thes with the celebrities of the day and the controversy of the 'asylum' that was Kingsley Hall in the East End of London.
Yet in recent years the essence and wisdom of what was called 'antipsychiatry' has held its ground in the growing field of humanistic and existential therapy.



'RD Laing: A Life' seeks to answer the fundamental questions: what made RD Laing the man he was, . . and how did a schoolboy from Govanhill in Glasgow born inbecome a world famous guru and counterculture figure ins ands
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