R. D. Laing interview | Psychiatrist | Mental Illness | Psychiatry | Part 2 

I'm very glad they did, love it!

@@ChuckHippy That's good to hear.👍

Not alive now sadly

❤

You nailed it. I thought that way since I was small, but saw it and experienced it exponentially and horrifically when my very damaged and motivated mom chose to quiet my memories of abuse and dysfunction and had me locked and drugged and shocked for it. The things I saw and have lived thru. If I hadn't had an excellent professor for abnormal psych at the same time who had us reading RD Laing and Thomas Zsacz, I'd be dead. I became a social worker abd activist and helped prevent others from being railroaded. They stole my life and did permanent damage, but I've never stopped changing lives for the better and educating doctors abd therapists. Most people are afraid of the way traumatized people sound and appear when they've hit the wall and chosen to speak in metaphors... I always understood and wasn't deterred by that.

His actual last words were, "What fucking doctor?"

@@alexwatson2479 That's not what I read about him then again what I read might have been wrong.

@@alexwatson2479 Looks like you are right about his last words. At least the sentiment is similar if not the same.

@@djzouke I have eyewitness testimony from a close personal friend

@@alexwatson2479 I believe you. I don't remember where or when I read that. It must have been many years ago.

@GotNoEvidence I believe pretty much anything at first read then it creeps up on me that I am thinking what I want to think rather than what the book actually says. I do it with films to. I watch something and think,’that was great’.Wake up and my critical facilities return. Althogh I still say La La Land is great film ruined by an ‘American’ ending. Sorry “America’ i like you really

What graveyard is he in?

Ballard did an afternoon show with Joan Bakewell, similar programme to this, where he brought a smashed Car into the T.V Studio(so why swap this unique Gem for another?) More exposure for them both is welcome surely.

@@maxinemckenzie6076 That must've been to do with Crash then, surely. Sounds interesting anyway, Joan Bakewell is so good at 'mining' her interviewees given enough time, that she's always worth a listen.

Laing questioned many of the assumptions of psychiatric thought and for that reason, was referred to as unstable or mad. The irony is that Laing, in his works, pointed out that an individual whose behaviour falls outside of what is 'normal' is often labelled as mad or mentally ill but this is not necessarily the case. Laing suffered, no doubt, from alcoholism and depression but certainly was not deluded. He remained an intelligent and important figure up until his death, see the documentary Did You Used to be R. D. Laing? from 1989, (the year of his death,) for evidence of this.

Yeah, spot on James. 👌.

@@ChuckHippy thank you for stressing these details out

You're welcome.