1927 - 1989
R.D. Laing Scottish Doctor, Doctor
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Scottish Doctor R.D. Laing passed away on 23rd Aug 1989 Saint-Tropez, France aged 61. Born Ronald David Laing on 7th October, 1927 (Libra) in Govanhill, Glasgow, Scotland, UK and educated at Hutchesons' Grammar School, R.D. Laing is most remembered for Medical model. His zodiac sign is Libra.
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Details
| First Name |
Ronald
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| Middle Name |
David
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| Last Name |
Laing
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| Full Name at Birth |
Ronald David Laing
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| Alternative Name |
Dr. R.D. Laing
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| Birthday |
7th October, 1927
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| Birthplace |
Govanhill, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
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| Died |
23rd August, 1989
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| Place of Death |
Saint-Tropez, France
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| Cause of Death |
Heart Attack (while Playing Tennis)
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| Build |
Slim
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| Hair Color |
Brown - Dark
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| Distinctive Feature |
"The sane are mad and the mad are sane"...
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| Zodiac Sign |
Libra
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| Sexuality |
Straight
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| Ethnicity |
White
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| Nationality |
Scottish
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| High School |
Sir John Neilson Cuthbertson Public School, Hutchesons' Grammar School
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| University |
University of Glasgow (medicine, 1951)
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| Occupation Text |
Psychiatrist
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| Occupation |
Doctor, Doctor
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| Claim to Fame |
Medical model
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Ronald David Laing (7 October 1927 – 23 August 1989), usually cited as R. D. Laing, was a Scottish psychiatrist who wrote extensively on mental illness – in particular, the experience of psychosis. Laing's views on the causes and treatment of psychopathological phenomena were influenced by his study of existential philosophy and ran counter to the chemical and electroshock methods that had become psychiatric orthodoxy. Taking the expressed feelings of the individual patient or client as valid descriptions of lived experience rather than simply as symptoms of mental illness, Laing regarded schizophrenia as a theory not a fact. Though associated in the public mind with anti-psychiatry he rejected the label. Politically, he was regarded as a thinker of the New Left. Laing was portrayed by David Tennant in the 2017 film Mad to Be Normal.
