R.D. Laing in the 21st Century: A Weekend Symposium With Those Who Knew Him: DVD
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- Publisher : Free Association, Inc
- Published : 2013
- Cover : DVD
- Category :
Existential therapy - Catalogue No : 37133
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Addressing R.D. Laing’s legacy and contemporary relevance in commemoration of the 25th anniversary of his death, this is a four disk DVD set made during the Symposium at Wagner College, Staten Island, New York, on 23rd-27th October 2013.
Disk One:
Peter Mezan, PhD - Who Was R.D. Laing?
Betty Cannon, PhD - Laing, Sartre and the Practice of Existential Therapy
Edie Irwin - Laing and Spirituality
Disk Two:
Darlene Ehrenberg, PhD - Discovery Laing the Psychoanalyst
Theodor Itten - R.D. Laing and Psychotherapeutic Compassion
Stanley Krippner, PhD - Models of Madness, Models of Medicine
Kirk Schneider, PhD - The Centrality of R.D. Laing’s “Ontological Insecurity”
Disk Three:
Andrew Pickering, PhD - Non-Modern Selves
Michael Guy Thompson, PhD - R.D. Laing and The Myth of Mental Illness Redux
Peter Breggin, MD - Human Relationship vs. Biological Psychiatry
Disk Four:
Douglas Kirsner, PhD - The Divided Self and The Politics of Experience
Fritjof Capra, PhD - The Voice of Experience and The Science of Consciousness
Kingsley Hall & Beyond Panel - What it was Like to Live in One of Laing’s Households
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'R. D. Laing wore many robes in his career, including psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, philosopher, social critic, author, poet, and mystic, and at the peak of his fame and popularity in the 1970s he was the most widely-read psychiatrist in the world.
'Arguably the most controversial psychoanalyst since Freud, Laing’s meteoric rise in the 1960s was the result of his rare ability to make complex ideas accessible with such best-selling classics as The Divided Self (1960), Sanity, Madness and Family (1964), The Politics of Experience (1967), and Knots (1970). Laing’s impassioned plea for a more humane treatment of those in society who are most vulnerable catapulted him into the vanguard of intellectual and cultural debate about the nature of sanity and madness, and inspired a generation of psychology students, intellectuals, and artists to turn this disarming Scotsman into a social icon.
'Laing’s extraordinary influence was based almost entirely on his devastating critique of conventional psychiatric practices, which he believed were often more deadly than the disease they presumed to treat. The (albeit reluctant) father of “antipsychiatry,” Laing developed a daring alternative to psychiatric treatment at Kingsley Hall, the therapy center in London where he conceived the notion of a community where therapists and patients alike could live without clearly defined roles. This controversial treatment regimen was so successful that it continues to operate nearly fifty years later and is even funded by the Local Council in London. Kingsley Hall also inspired numerous residential treatment communities in North America that eventually led to a sea-change in contemporary attitudes about the involuntary incarceration of the mentally ill.
'Now, in this unprecedented event, Laing’s former students and colleagues from around the world will meet in New York to commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of his death in order to assess his legacy and continuing relevance to contemporary thought and practice. Wagner College on Staten Island is proud to host a weekend symposium for the purpose of exploring Laing’s legacy with those who knew him intimately in America. Representatives from existential therapy, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, Buddhism, the treatment of schizophrenia and psychotic process, the humanistic-transpersonal and New Age community, and spiritual practitioners will meet to discuss Laing’s impact on these disciplines and his continuing relevance to twenty-first century attitudes about psychological suffering and health.'
— Michael Guy Thompson
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