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Portrait of the Psychiatrist as a Young Man - The Early Writing and Work of R.D. Laing, 1927-1960 (Paperback)
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Portrait of the Psychiatrist as a Young Man - The Early Writing and Work of R.D. Laing, 1927-1960 (Paperback)
Series: International Perspectives in Philosophy & Psychiatry
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RD Laing remains one of the most famous psychiatrists of the last
50 years. In the 1960s he enjoyed enormous popularity and received
much publicity for his controversial views challenging the
psychiatric orthodoxy. He championed the rights of the patient, and
challenged the often inhumane methods of treating the mentally ill.
Based on a wealth of previously unexamined archives relating to his
private papers and clinical notes, Portrait of the Psychiatrist as
a Young Man sheds new light on RD Laing, and in particular his
early formative years - a crucial but largely overlooked period in
his life. The first half of the book considers Laing's intellectual
journey through the world of ideas and his development as a
psychiatric theorist. An analysis of his notebooks and personal
library reveals Laing's engagement not only with psychiatric
theory, but also with a wide range of other disciplines, such as
philosophy, literature, and religion. This part of the book
considers how this shaped Laing's writing about madness and his
evolution as a clinician. The second half draws on a rich and
completely unexplored collection of Laing's clinical notes, which
detail his encounters with patients in his early years as a
psychiatrist, firstly in the British Army, subsequently in the
psychiatric hospitals of Glasgow, and finally in the Tavistock
Clinic in London. These notes reveal what Laing was actually doing
in clinical practice, and how theory interacted with therapy. The
majority of patients who were to appear in Laing's first two books,
The Divided Self and The Self and Others have been identified from
these records, and this volume provides a fascinating account of
how the published case histories compare to the original notes.
There is a considerable mythology surrounding Laing, partly created
by himself and partly by subsequent commentators. By a careful
examination of primary sources, Allan Beveridge, both a
psychiatrist and an historian, examines the many mythological
narratives about Laing and provide a critical but not unsympathetic
account of this colourful and contradictory thinker, who addressed
questions about the nature of madness which are still being asked
today.
This book will be of interest to mental health workers and social
historians alike as well as anybody interested in the philosophy of
psychiatry.
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