Ronnie Laing is one of many psychiatrists who has attacked mainstream psychiatry the last 50 years.  He is well worth listening to.  Please also read George A. Kelly
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I will also say that his approach has radical implication for pedagogy and how we wiew society in general. The same aplies to George Kelly.  This will get you started on an amazing journey that might turn your world upside-down?
The Norwegian psychiatrist Einar Kringlen has written an article about him in Dabladet (Nowegian)

"Laing skrev «The divided self» bare 28 år gammel, en bok som etter at den kom ut i Penguin-utgave, ble solgt i enorme opplag både i Vest-Europa og USA. Han forsøkte her å gjøre psykosene forståelige på samme vis som Freud hadde forsøkt å gjøre nevrotiske symptomer forståelige. For Laing er den schizofrene psykose ikke først og fremst et produkt av individuell arvelig eller konstitusjonell disposisjon, men uttrykk for mellommenneskelige vansker som får individet til å utvikle det han kalte et «falskt jeg» for å overleve. Han angriper den tradisjonelle psykiatri, som han mener objektiviserer pasienten. For Laing er ikke pasienten et kasus, men et menneske som en selv. Terapeuten som person er den helende kraft, ikke teknikken. Og han stiller seg også kritisk til den freudske psykoanalyse, som i sin teori er mekanistisk".
 
 
 



Ronnie Laing
[1927 - 1989]
 

Was Scottish and a Psychiatrist - Probably the best known radical psychiatrist of our times, he worked as a therapist, mainly in England, in the area of human madness, about which he wrote so decisively. He applied the notions of existential philosophy to the actual experiencing of so-called ‘schizophrenia’, dedicating his life’s work to attempting to unravel the human experiences of psychosis within a humanistic understanding in such a way as to try to re-introduce the experience of madness back into the everyday awareness and acceptance of society by opposing the incarceration (innesperring) of people elected to become the family psychotics. He formulated the view that madness was an attempt by the person to spontaneously cure themselves of the maddening situations in which they had to live, and that as such it was a natural healing process which ought to be facilitated to run its course rather than be arrested, blocked and forever suspended by forcibly feeding psycho-pharmacological concoctions (oppkok) to such people and locking them up in ‘mental hospitals’ in a process of degradation. Well known for his contributions to the ‘anti-psychiatry’ movement

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