1969Winner
Best Performance
Cain's Film
R.D. Laing
Actor · Writer
Govanhill, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
October 7, 1927
Biography
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 treatment of serious mental dysfunction, greatly influenced by existential philosophy, ran counter to the psychiatric orthodoxy of the day by taking the expressed feelings of the individual patient or client as valid descriptions of lived experience rather than simply as symptoms of some separate or underlying disorder.
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
1967Nominee
Best Performance
Ah, Sunflower
2018Winner
Best Performance
Arthur Janov's Primal Therapy
Career Highlights
1989Highlight
Best Performance
Did You Used to Be R.D. Laing?
1972Highlight
Best Performance
Asylum