Who was
R.D. Laing ?
a lecture with
Peter Mezan, Ph.D.
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Wed.,
April 5, 2017 at 8 pm
247
East 82nd Street, NYC
FREE. All are welcome.
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During
the countercultural revolution of the 1960s and 70s, R.D. Laing was the most
famous psychiatrist in the world -- and arguably the most controversial
psychoanalytic thinker since Freud. Regarded as the father of the
antipsychiatry movement, Laing challenged the basis of conventional treatment. His ideas enraged the
psychiatric establishment but caught the imagination of the public at large.
Laing's books - The Divided Self, Sanity, Madness, and the Family, and The
Politics of Experience - sold millions of copies and cemented his status as a
culture hero. But by the time Laing died in 1989, his influence had all but
vanished. Dr. Mezan will give a portrait of the man and his ideas, based on his
encounters and friendship with Laing and the crazy world surrounding him.
bye.
bye.
