R. D. Laing
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Ronald David Laing, usually cited as R. D. Laing, was a Scottish psychiatrist who wrote extensively on mental illness, particularly psychosis and schizophrenia. Politically, Laing was regarded as a th
Laing in 1983, perusing The Ashley Book of Knots (1944)
Anti-psychiatry
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Anti-psychiatry, sometimes spelled antipsychiatry, is a controversial movement based on the experience that psychiatric treatment can often be more damaging than helpful to patients. The term anti-psy
R. D. Laing
…client as valid descriptions of personal experience rather than simply as symptoms of mental illness. Although associated in the public mind with the anti-psychiatry movement, he rejected the label. Laing regarded schizophrenia as the normal psychological adjustment to a dysfunctional social context. Laing was born…
Vienna's Narrenturm—German for "fools' tower"—was one of the earliest buildings specifically designed as a "madhouse". It was built in 1784.
Internee being restrained in a bathtub
Internee in a restraint chair at the West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum, 1869
Graveyard attached to the Church of St. Thomas in West Yorkshire, England, where thousands of internees from Storthes Hall Hospital are buried in unmarked graves