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R. D. Laing
by his son
Adrian Laing
25 years after R. D. Laing’s death (1989)
50 years after Laing and Esterson’s
Sanity, Madness and the Family (1964)
Adrian Laing
conducts
Inner Circle Seminar No. 209
introduced by
Anthony Stadlen
Sunday 14 December 2014
10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
25 years after R. D. Laing’s death (1989)
50 years after Laing and Esterson’s
Sanity, Madness and the Family (1964)
Adrian Laing
conducts
Inner Circle Seminar No. 209
introduced by
Anthony Stadlen
Sunday 14 December 2014
10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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| R. D. Laing |
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| Adrian Laing |
It is twenty-five years since the death of R. D. Laing (7 October 1927–23 August 1989), one of the most remarkable existential psychiatrists and
psychoanalysts of the twentieth century. It is also fifty years since the
publication of the epochmaking book he wrote with Aaron Esterson, Sanity
Madness and the Family (1964),
which we are exploring in eleven seminars on the subsequent histories of the
eleven women and their families it describes. Today we focus on the life and
work of R. D. Laing himself.
His son and biographer,
Adrian Laing, will provide an analysis of his father’s personal and
professional life by reference to each of R.
D. Laing’s published works from The Divided Self (1960) to Wisdom, Madness and Folly (1985). He will present hitherto unknown
material on his father and attempt a reassessment of his contribution,
including its complex relationship with the work of David Cooper, Aaron Esterson, and Thomas Szasz.
Adrian Laing is
a barrister. He is a former student of Michel
Foucault and friend of David Cooper. He is author of the highly
praised R. D. Laing: A Biography (1994)
[second edition: R. D. Laing: A Life (2006)] and the novel Rehab Blues (2012), written as ‘laughter therapy’ and
satirising such phenomena as the ‘rebirthing’
practised by his father. He is uniquely qualified to facilitate our quest for
an understanding and balanced evaluation of his father’s life and work.
Venue: Durrants Hotel,
Cost: Psychotherapy trainees £120, others £150, some bursaries; coffee, tea, biscuits, mineral water included; no refunds or transfers unless seminar cancelled
Apply to: Anthony Stadlen, ‘Oakleigh’, 2A
Tel: +44 (0) 20 8888 6857 E-mail: stadlen@aol.com
For further information on seminars, visit: http://anthonystadlen.blogspot.com
For further information on seminars, visit: http://anthonystadlen.blogspot.com
The
Inner Circle Seminars were founded by Anthony Stadlen in 1996 as an ethical,
existential, phenomenological search for truth in psychotherapy. They have been
kindly described by Thomas Szasz as ‘Institute for Advanced Studies in the
Moral Foundations of Human Decency and Helpfulness’. But they are independent
of all institutes, schools and colleges.
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