R D Laing: Creative Destroyer - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0304701149 ISBN 13: 9780304701148

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, 1997

Synopsis

`I really liked this book a lot. It is so bitty, so easy to dip into. I found so many quotes I loved and found useful and wanted to remember′ - Self and Society

`This book is a valuable resource for future scholars and aspiring biographers and well worth the effort of anyone really interested in the life and thought of this brilliant and tormented man′ - Journal of the Behavioural Science

This volume collects together accounts, both professional and personal, of R D Laing by those who knew him. Some view Laing as important as Jung or Freud - a revolutionary of his time. His psychiatry work in the 1960s and 1970s was unconventional, even radical, and Laing the man evoked a strong response from those who came into contact with him. The book features conversations, letters, photographs and poetry, and contributors include Allen Ginsberg, Anthony Clare, Ralph Metzner and Van Morrison.

About this title

About the Author

Bob Mullan is a writer, lecturer and documentary film-maker, and is the author of a number of books on psychotherapy. He currently teaches at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0304701149
• ISBN 13: 9780304701148
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 456
• Editor: Mullan Bob