R.D. Laing: Contemporary Perspectives
Book Details
- Publisher : Free Association Books
- Published : 2005
- Cover : Paperback
- Category :
Existential therapy - Category 2 :
Clinical Psychology - Catalogue No : 91698
- ISBN 13 : 9781853437014
- ISBN 10 : 1853437018
Reviews and Endorsements
The disciplines involved cover, or implicate, such distinct areas of intellectual inquiry as psychiatry (including neurobiology), psychotherapy, philosophy and anthropology.Contributors include Luc Ciompi, Loren Mosher and Louis Sass The ongoing work inspired by Laing, represents a potent challenge to exclusively medically based psychiatry - fashionably described as 'biological psychiatry'. This book aims to re-establish Laing's work as a continuing source of inspiration for the development of a truly humanistic psychiatry and psychology, whilst providing the basis of a radical and profound critique, of conventional psychiatry, concluding that R. D. Laing's is one of the major contributors to the theory and practice of psychiatry, worthy of being ranked alongside such other extraordinary pioneers as Emil Kraepelin, Henry Maudsley, Adolf Meyer and Harry Stack Sullivan.