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R.D. Laing

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Directed movies: 0Directed series: 0All crew credits: 1

TMDB ID: 1376269

IMDb ID: nm1775456

Known for: Acting

Born: October 7, 1927

Died: August 23, 1989

Age: 61

Place of birth: Govanhill, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1967 - 2018

Years active: 52

Average TMDB rating: 6.8

Wikidata: Q238584

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Biography

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.

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