The Wing of Madness - The Life and Work of R.D. Laing

Daniel Burston chronicles Laing's meteoric rise to fame as one of the first media psychogurus of the century, and his spiraling decline in the late seventies and eighties. Here are the successes: Laing's emergence as a unique voice on the psychiatric scene with his first book,

List of contents

Beginnings Schooling The Tavistock and Family Research In and Out of Kingsley Hall The Turn to Mysticism Birth and Before Fade to Black A Topography of Babel Philosophical Anthropology The Critique of Psychoanalysis Psychiatry Then and Now Notes References Index

About the author

Daniel Burston is Associate Professor of Psychology at Duquesne University.

Summary

In his final years, R. D. Laing (1927–1989) was arriving at lectures addled with hashish and brandy, yet he was one of the most influential and controversial psychiatrists of the 20th century, whose books sold millions of copies in more than 20 languages. Burston explores this man of many contradictions.

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Burston, Burston Daniel
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.01.1998
• EAN: 9780674953598
• ISBN: 978-0-674-95359-8
• Weight: 354 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Humanities (general); Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Biography: general, PSYCHOLOGY / General, MEDICAL / Psychiatry / General, Psychology, Psychiatry, Biography: philosophy and social sciences