R. D. Laing

Laing, R. D. - (Ronald David Laing)lăng, 1927–89, British psychiatrist. After studying at Univ. of Glasgow (M.D., 1951), he taught there (1953–56), later moving to the Tavistock Clinic and Institute of Human Relations (1956–89) to conduct research on schizophrenia. He directed the Langham Clinic in London (1962–65), and founded a therapeutic community in which Read More...

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Self and Others
by R. D. Laing. 170 pgs.

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This set reprints seven of R.D. Laing's major works, originally published between 1960 and 1971 and out of print for many years. Laing was an existential psychiatrist who offered a radical critique of abnormal behaviour.

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Preface to Second Edition

Preface to First Edition

Acknowledgements

Part One: Modes of Interpersonal Experience

Chapter I: Phantasy and Experience

Chapter II: Phantasy and Communication

Chapter III: Pretence and Elusion

Chapter IV: The Counterpoint of Experience

Chapter V: The Coldness of Death

Part Two: Forms of Interpersonal Action

Chapter VI: Complementary Identity

Chapter VII: Confirmation and Disconfirmation

Chapter VIII: Collusion

Chapter IX: False and Untenable Positions

Chapter X: Attributions and Injunctions

Appendix

Selected Bibliography

Index
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R. D. Laing and the Paths of Anti-Psychiatry
by Zbigniew Kotowicz. 132 pgs.

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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.

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Preface

Contents

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: The World of a Psychotic

Chapter 3: Knots

Chapter 4: The Dialectics of Liberation

Chapter 5: Psychiatry and Freedom

Chapter 6: Response and Legacy

Chronology

Bibliography

Index
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The Making of Psychology: Discussions with Creative Contributors (Chap. 18 "R. D. Laing")
by Richard I. Evans. 382 pgs.

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Introduction:: A Perspective on the Discussion Style and Content

Section One: Ethology Development Intelligence

2: Nikolaas Tinbergen

3: Harry F. Harlow

4: Jean Piaget

5: Arthur Jensen

Section Two Learning Cognition Altered States of Consciousness

6: Ernest Hilgard

7: B. F. Skinner

8: Donald Norman

9: J. B. Rhine

10 Joe Kamiya

Section Three: Physiological Psychology Motivation Emotion

12: David Mcclelland

13: Stanley Schachter

14: Neal Miller

15: James Mcconnell

Section Four: Personality: Behavioral Social Existential

17: Carl Roges

18 R. D.Laing

19: Albert Bandura

20: H. J. Eysenck

Section Five Personality: Analytic

22: C.G. Jung

References

24: Erich Fromm

Section Six: Social Behavior

25: Leon Festinger

26 Milton Rokeach

27 Stanley Milgram

28: Philip Zimbardo

Subject Index

Name Index

About the Author
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Psychologists on Psychology (Chap. 8 "R. D. Laing")
by David Cohen. 362 pgs.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

1: David Mcclelland

2: Donald Broadbent

3: Noam Chomsky

4: H. J. Eysenck

5: Leon Festinger

6: Liam Hudson

7: Michel Jouvet

8: R.D. Laing

9: Leupold-Löwenthal

10: Neal Miller

11: Burrhus Skinner

12: Henri Tajfel

13: Niko Tinbergen

Tentative Conclusions

Bibliography
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Humanistic and Transpersonal Psychology: A Historical and Biographical Sourcebook (Chap. 22 "Ronald Laing: Existentialism and Psychoanalysis")
by Donald Moss, Stanley Krippner. 457 pgs.

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An examination of four decades of research and practice in humanistic psychology, this work highlights the lasting contributions of humanistic psychology to the science of psychology and to the pursuit of personal and spiritual development. It explores the passions and goals of the founders and their vital legacy for the 21st century.

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Copyright Acknowledgments

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Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

References

Part I: Humanistic and Transpersonal Psychology: An Overview

The Historical and Scientific Background of Humanistic Psychology

1: The Historical and Cultural Context of Humanistic Psyhology: Ike, Annette, and Elvis

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2: The Scientific and Philosophical Context of Humanistic Psycbology

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3: Abraham Maslow and the Emergence of Humanistic Psychology

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Major Schools and Theorists in Humanistic Psychology

4: Carl Rogers, the Person-Centered Approach, and Experiential Therapy

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5: Gestalt Therapy: The Once and Future King

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6: The Humanistic Psychology of Self-Disclosure, Relationship, and Community

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7: Body Therapies in Humanistic Psychology

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8: Existential-Phenomenological Psychology

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9: Feminist Psychology and Humanistic Psychology

Notes

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10: Biofeedback, Mind-Body Medicine, and the Higher Limits of Human Nature

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Beyond the Person: Spiritual and Transpersonal Psychologies

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11: Christian Humanistic Psychology

Notes

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12: Transpersonal Psychology: The Fourth Force

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The Heritage and the Promise of Humanistic and Transpersonal Psychology

13: The Continuing Need for A Humanistic and Transpersonal Psychology

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14: The Promise and Hope of Humanistic Psychology

Notes

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Part II: Biographical and Critical Essays on Central Figures in Humanistic Psychology and Transpersonal Psychology

15: Diana Baumrind: Researcher and Critical Humanist

Notes

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16: James F. T. Bugental: Continuity and Change

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17: Moshe Feldenkrais and Functional Integration

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18: Erich : Humanistic Psyhoanalysis

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19: Amedeo Giorgi and the Project of A Human Science

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20: On Psyhology as A Person-Centered Science: William James and His Relation to the Humanistic Tradition

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21: Sidney Jourard: Disclosing to Ourselves and Others

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22: Ronald Laing: Existentialism and Psychoanalysis

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23: Abraham Maslow: Yesterday, Tomorrow, and Yesteryear

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24: Rollo May. Liberator and Realist

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25: Fritz Perls and Paul Goodman: When Ahasuerus Met Erasmus

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26: Laura Perls and Gestalt Therapy: Her Life and Values

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27: Carl Rogers: Client, Heal Thyself

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28: Ida P. Rolf and Structural Integration (rolfing)

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29: Erwin Straus: The Individual, the Senses, and the Beloved Earth

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30: Ken Wilber: Mapping the Evolution of Consciousness

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Index

About the Editor and Contributors
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The Philosophical Defence of Psychiatry (Chap. 4 "Ronald Laing and the Rationalizing of Madness")
by Lawrie Reznek. 252 pgs.

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By first analysing the arguments of psychiatry's critics and the philosophical ideas of such thinkers as Freud, Eysenck, Laing, Szasz, Sedgwick and Foucault and by then providing answers to the many contentious and diverse questions raised, Dr. Reznek aims to establish a philosophical defence of the theory and practice of psychiatry.As both a qualified philosopher and psychiatrist, the author is exceptionally p[laced to undertake the examination of a subject which has hitherto remained untackled. It will be easily accessible to a wide variety of non-specialists as well. It will be of specific interest to those involved in the practice of philosophy, psychiatry, clinical psychology, social work and psychiatric nursing.

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Preface

Introduction: Psychiatry in Crisis

1: The Medical Paradigm

2: Sigmund Freud and the Pathologizing of Normality

3: Hans Eysenck and the Normalizing of Neurosis

4: Ronald Laing and the Rationalizing of Madness

5: Thomas Szasz and the Physicalizing of Disease

6: Peter Sedgwick and the Social Construction of Illness

7: Thomas Scheff and the Labelling of Deviance

8: Michel Foucault and the Civilizing of Madness

9: Paradigms of Mental Illness

10: The Nature of Mental Illness

11: Is Psychiatry a Science?

12: Psychiatry and Responsibility

13: The Practice of Psychiatry

Conclusion: the Nature of Psychiatry

References

Index
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The Revision of Psychoanalysis ("The New Concept of the Unconscious According to Ronald D. Laing" begins on p. 60)
by Erich Fromm, Rainer Funk. 149 pgs.

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The Revision of Psychoanalysis

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Foreword

1: On My Psychoanalytic Approach

2: The Dialectic Revision of Psychoanalysis

3: Sexuality and Sexual Perversions

4: The Alleged Radicalism of Herbert Marcuse

Bibliography

About the Book

Name Index

Subject Index
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Knots
by R. D. Laing. 90 pgs.

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This set reprints seven of R.D. Laing's major works, originally published between 1960 and 1971 and out of print for many years. Laing was an existential psychiatrist who offered a radical critique of abnormal behaviour.

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