R.D. Laing Death
R.D passed away on August 23, 1989 at the age of 61.
When did R.D. Laing die?
August 23, 1989How old was R.D. Laing when died?
61
R.D. Laing Birthday and Date of Death
R.D. Laing was born on October 7, 1927 and died on August 23, 1989. R.D was 61 years old at the time of death.
Birthday: October 7, 1927
Date of Death: August 23, 1989
Age at Death: 61
R.D. Laing - Biography
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 serious mental dysfunction, greatly influenced by existential philosophy, ran counter to the psychiatric orthodoxy of the day by taking the expressed feelings of the individual patient or client as valid descriptions of lived experience rather than simply as symptoms of some separate or underlying disorder. Laing was associated with the anti-psychiatry movement, although he rejected the label. Politically, he was regarded as a thinker of the New Left.
