9781853439742
R.D. Laing and psycho-dynamic psychiatry in 1950's Glasgow; a
reappraisal. (reprint, 2007)
Hunter-Brown, Isobel.
Free Association Books
2008
243 pages
$34.95
Paperback
RC489
As a former trainee working in a Glasgow mental hospital with R. D.
Laing (1927-89), the influential but controversial Scottish
psychiatrist, Hunter-Brown presents a balanced assessment of his life,
career, and legacy based on interviews with former colleagues, his
son's biography, and Laing's writings (e.g., The Divided Self,
1959). While he treated psychotic patients' communications as valid
descriptions of their lived experience, she argues that his
"pioneering" holistic stands on mental health and against the
use of anti-psychotic drugs already were part of the Scottish
psychiatric tradition influenced especially by W.R.D. Fairbairn. Not
indexed. Distributed in the US by ISBS.
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