The author, who worked alongside R.D. Laing in Glasgow, seeks to
put the record straight. From the contemporary perspective, Laing
is admired as a pioneer of ideas and a charismatic and prominent
anti-psychiatrist. Isobel Hunter-Brown reveals, however, that
Laing's view of sanity and insanity as a continuum and his
opposition to high-dosage anti-psychotic medication already formed
part of the Scottish psychiatric tradition. Hunter-Brown argues
that the culture of the Glasgow units in which Laing worked early
in his career had already been strongly influenced by the Scottish
psychoanalyst, Fairbairn. Furthermore, for decades prior to this,
their inspiration had traditionally been drawn from Adolph Meyer,
who promoted a holistic view of his patients - exploring
biological, psychological and social dimensions as part of their
diagnosis - an approach that is widely believed to have originated
with Laing. Psychiatrists seldom write about their profession, but
this author describes the inner workings of psychiatric practice in
Glasgow during the 1950s and the way in which some practitioners in
that allegedly barbarous era were already using psychodynamic
methods to help their patients.
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