Rd Laing And The Paths Of Anti Psychiatry

Author : Zbigniew Kotowicz
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415116114
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book R.D. Laing and the Paths of Anti-psychiatry written by Zbigniew Kotowicz and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zbigniew Kotowicz re-examines Laing's work in the context of the anti-psychiatry movement. He provides a much needed reassessment of his radical ideas and their significance for psychotherapy and psychiatry today.

Author : Zbigniew Kotowicz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134819528
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book R.D. Laing and the Paths of Anti-Psychiatry written by Zbigniew Kotowicz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-07-25 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1960s and 1970s, the radical and visionary ideas of R. D. Laing revolutionized thinking about psychiatric practice and the meaning of madness. His work, from The Divided Self to Knots, and his therapeutic community at Kingsley Hall, made him a household name. But after little more than a decade he faded from prominence as quickly as he had attained it. R.D.Laing and the Paths of Anti-Psychiatry re-examines Laing's work in the context of the anti-psychiatry movement. Concentrating on his most productive decade, the author provides a reasoned critique of Laing's theoretical writings, investigates the influences on his thinking such as phenomenology, existentialism and American family interaction research, and considers the experimental Kingsley Hall therapeutic community in comparison with anti-psychiatry experiments in Germany and Italy. The book provides a much needed reassessment and re-evaluation of Laing's work and its significance for psychotherapy and psychiatry today.

Author : Robert Boyers
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book R. D. Laing & Anti-psychiatry written by Robert Boyers and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1971 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 324 pages
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Author : Joseph Berke
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 227 pages
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Download or read book Laing and Anti-psychiatry written by Joseph Berke and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : F. Barton Evans III
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134811764
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Harry Stack Sullivan written by F. Barton Evans III and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-09-21 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harry Stack Sullivan (1892-1949) has been described as 'the most original figure in American psychiatry'. Challenging Freud's psychosexual theory, Sullivan founded the interpersonal theory of psychiatry, which emphasized the role of interpersonal relations, society and culture as the primary determinants of personality development and psychopathology. This concise and coherent account of Sullivan's work and life invites the modern audience to rediscover the provocative, groundbreaking ideas embodied in Sullivan's interpersonal theory and psychotherapy.

Author : Allan Beveridge
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191625477
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Portrait of the Psychiatrist as a Young Man written by Allan Beveridge and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2011-08-25 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Andrew Collier
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book R. D. Laing written by Andrew Collier and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 1977 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book R.D. Laing and Anti-Psychiatry, Or, The Basic Trouble of what it Means to Become a Human Being written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : M. Guy Thompson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317532473
Total Pages : 181 pages
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Download or read book The Legacy of R. D. Laing written by M. Guy Thompson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-05-22 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The name R. D. Laing continues to be widely recognized by those in the psychotherapy community in the United States and Europe. Laing’s books are a testament to his breadth of interests, including the understanding of madness, alternatives to conventional psychiatric treatment, existential philosophy and therapy, family systems, cybernetics, mysticism, and poetry. He is most remembered for his devastating critique of psychiatric practices, his controversial rejection of the concept of ‘mental illness,’ and his groundbreaking center for people in acute mental distress at Kingsley Hall, London. Most of the books that have been published about Laing have been written by people who did not know him personally and were unfamiliar with Laing the man and teacher. The Legacy of R. D. Laing: An appraisal of his contemporary relevance is composed by thinkers and practitioners who knew Laing intimately, some of whom worked with Laing. This collection of papers brings a perspective and balance to Laing’s controversial ideas, some of which were never addressed in his books. There has never been a collection of papers that address so thoroughly the question of who Laing was and why he became the most famous psychiatrist in the world. As M. Guy Thompson’s collection illustrates, there are now a number of alternatives to psychiatry throughout the world, and much of this can be credited to Laing’s influence. The Legacy of R. D. Laing will ensure the reader has a keen grasp of who Laing was, what it was like to be his patient or his friend, and why his thinking was far ahead of its time, even in the radical era of the 1970s. It is timely to appraise the nature of his contribution and bring Laing back into contemporary conversations about the nature of sanity and madness, and more humane approaches to helping those in profound mental distress. This book offers an in-depth insight into the work of R.D. Laing. It will be a must read for psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, family therapists, psychiatrists and academics alike. M. Guy Thompson, PhD is a Personal and Supervising Analyst at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California and Chairman of Free Association, Inc., a non-profit organization devoted to the dissemination of Laing’s ideas, in San Francisco. Dr. Thompson received his psychoanalytic training from R. D. Laing and associates at the Philadelphia Association and is the author of numerous books and journal articles on psychoanalysis, phenomenology, and schizophrenia. He currently lives in San Rafael, California.