R. D. Laing

✶October 7, 1927

†August 23, 1989

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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 thinker of the New Left. He has been theatrically portrayed by Mike Maran, Alan Cox, Billy Mack, and David Tennant in the 2017 film Mad to Be Normal.

Unorthodox Scottish psychiatrist (1927–1989)

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Biography from the article R. D. Laing on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.