Birth Name:

Ronald David Laing

Male

Birth Date:

Fri, Oct 07, 1927

Time of Birth:

05:15 PM

Place of Birth:

Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

Age:

96

Zodiac Sign:

Libra

Astrology Data:

Sun

13°

Lib

26'

Moon

29°

Aqu

3'

Asc

29°

Pis

32'

MC

29°

Sag

51'

About R.D. Laing

Ronald David Laing (7 October 1927 – 23 August 1989), usually cited as R. D. Laing, was a Scottish psychiatrist who wrote extensively on mental illness – in particular, the experience of psychosis. Laing's views on the causes and treatment of psychopathological phenomena were influenced by his study of existential philosophy and ran counter to the chemical and electroshock methods that had become psychiatric orthodoxy. Taking the expressed feelings of the individual patient or client as valid descriptions of lived experience rather than simply as symptoms of mental illness, Laing regarded schizophrenia as a theory not a fact. Though associated in the public mind with anti-psychiatry he rejected the label. Politically, he was regarded as a thinker of the New Left. Laing was portrayed by David Tennant in the 2017 film Mad to Be Normal.

Link to Wikipedia biography

External Links:

• Biography at The Society for Laingian Studies

• Special Issue of Janus Head, Edited by Daniel Burston

• The Philadelphia Association

• Historical documents including correspondence with Gregory Bateson

• RD Laing: The Abominable Family Man from The Sunday Times

• Life before Death - 1978 album of sonnets and other poems performed by R. D. Laing to an original musical score

• Leo Matos and R. D. Laing: Transpersonal Psychology on YouTube: St Görans Lecture, Stockholm, 10 February 1982.

• R. D. Laing at Find a Grave

Birth Chart and Planetary Positions of R.D. Laing

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Astrological aspects and planetary data / tags for R.D. Laing: Sun 13 Libra, Moon 29 Aquarius, Mercury 5 Scorpio, Venus 9 Virgo, Mars 17 Libra, Jupiter 26 Pisces, Saturn 4 Sagittarius, Uranus 0 Aries, Neptune 28 Leo, Pluto 17 Cancer, Asc 29 Pisces, Mc 29 Sagittarius, Moon Opposition Neptune, Moon Sextile Midheaven, Sun Conjunct Mars, Moon Square Saturn, Sun Square Pluto, Sun Sesquiquadrate Moon, Sun Semi Square Neptune, Moon Semi Sextile Uranus, Moon Semi Sextile Ascendant, Mercury Sextile Venus, Mercury Semi Sextile Saturn, Mars Semi Square Saturn, Mars Square Pluto, Jupiter Conjunct Uranus, Jupiter Quincunx Neptune, Jupiter Conjunct Ascendant, Jupiter Square Midheaven, Saturn Trine Uranus, Saturn Sesquiquadrate Pluto, Saturn Trine Ascendant, Uranus Quincunx Neptune, Uranus Conjunct Ascendant, Uranus Square Midheaven, Neptune Quincunx Ascendant, Neptune Trine Midheaven, Ascendant Square Midheaven

Categories related to R.D. Laing: 1989 deaths, October 7 births, Schizophrenia researchers, Alumni of the University of Glasgow, People from Glasgow, British psychoanalysts, 20th-century Scottish medical doctors, 1927 births, Anti-psychiatry, Scottish soldiers, Existentialist and phenomenological psychologists, Scottish psychiatrists, History of mental health in the United Kingdom, People educated at Hutchesons Grammar School, People from Govanhill and Crosshill, History of psychiatry, Royal Army Medical Corps officers, Existential therapists, Psychosis, Scottish medical writers, Analysands of D. W. Winnicott

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