Psychiatry is as sharply split in its views on the causes and treatment of schizophrenia as schizophrenics are supposed to be split in their personalities. The prevailing view is still that of Freud: ...
RONALD DAVID LAING is a practicing British psychiatrist who seriously questions whether psychiatry is always useful or even necessary. He contends that drugs, shock treatment and other ...
Ronald David Laing, 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 ...