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R.D.Laing: A Divided Self (Paperback)
by John Clay (Author)
3.0 out of 5 stars  (1 customer review)

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  • Paperback: 308 pages
  • Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd; New Ed edition (20 Feb 1997)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0340684518
  • ISBN-13: 978-0340684511
  • Product Dimensions: 19.7 x 13.3 x 1.9 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  (1 customer review)
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R.D. Laing was Britain's most famous psychoanlayst and a hugely contentious figure. His ambition to make madness intelligible was reached through unorthodox means and despite being a gifted professional, he was sneered at by the establishment. In this biography, John Clay traces Laing's colourful life from his childhood in Glasgow to the heights of fame in the 1960s and assesses the influence his ideas had on the future of psychiatry.
 

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3.0 out of 5 stars A good read, but wait for the paperback, 29 Aug 2003
This review is from: R.D.Laing: A Biography (Hardcover)
If you've the slightest interest in psychology, you'll have heard of Ronnie David Laing, Britain's answer to Timothy Leary, who blazed the trail for today's integrationist therapy and links the revolutionary thought of Freud and 'modern' analysis. This book is a detailed account of his life without being turgid, but about halfway through you get the distinct feeling that all John Clay is doing is regurgitating other sources - was he in a hurry to finish it? Or maybe it's just that Laing's deterioration as an alcoholic made him less interesting to a mainstream psychologist. If you've read Harry Thompson's(?) bio of similar sixties icon/eighties wino Peter Cook you'll know what I mean; that was fascinating all the way through - towards the end of this Clay seems to lose interest in his subject. A stimulating read, nevertheless, if only because Laing was such a massive personality. I could have done with deeper analysis of Laing himself - and who came first with that look, him or Peter Stringfellow?
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