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(2016) Logotherapy and existential analysis, Dordrecht, Springer.
Portrait of the psychiatrist as a young man
the early writing and work of r.d. laing, 1927–1960
Sharon Packer
pp. 411-415
Even those who do not like Laing will love Beveridge's book about Laing. The reasons to relish this book? It does not convert non-believers into believers, but it contains a wealth of data, and contextualizes Laing's iconoclastic ideas about psychiatry into the currents of his times. Beveridge convinces us that Laingianism was a reaction to the excesses of 50s' era biologically based psychiatry, and that it was spiced up by a wide range of influences, from Buber's I and Thou, to Anton Chekhov's Ward No. 6, to his native Scotland, with its divided Highlands and Lowlands, plus his psychotic mother.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-29424-7_38
Full citation:
Packer, S. (2016)., Portrait of the psychiatrist as a young man: the early writing and work of r.d. laing, 1927–1960, in A. Batthyány (ed.), Logotherapy and existential analysis, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 411-415.
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