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Posted in R D Laing, anxiety, psychoanalysis on Jan 27th, 2012
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This post is part of a series. Please start reading at ‘Stage & Screen 1′ below.
Laing’s radical psychology provides a means of reclaiming the narrator of the ’surveillance theatre’ document (see ‘Stage & Screen 1′ below) from the dank cul de sac that is the terminus for the barking nutjob. Clearly the narrator is [...]
This post is part of a series. Please start reading at ‘Stage & Screen 1′ below.
New ways of looking at the mad were supplied by the radical psychiatrist R.D. Laing and his colleagues in the 1960s. Madness was seen as a reaction to an impossible situation and treated as a crucial stage on a developmental [...]
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