Dr. Dan L. Edmunds, Ed.D,B.C.S.A.,DAPA.

Dr. Dan L. Edmunds, Ed.D,B.C.S.A.,DAPA.
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Monday, April 02, 2012

LEGACY OF R.D. LAING

Humane pioneer's work lives on

Editor: Oct. 7 marked what would have been the 84th birthday of the noted psychiatrist R.D. Laing, who sought to bring a humane perspective that promoted dignity and freedom for people in emotional distress in an era of restraints, lobotomies and insulin coma.

Dr. Laing wrote the groundbreaking books "The Divided Self" and "The Politics of Experience" and fearlessly challenged the establishment.

His work remains relevant today particularly as we are in a climate of medicalization of human experience.

Ronnie Laing's work has inspired drug-free relational approaches for people undergoing extreme states of mind as well as autism and developmental differences. Though missed, he will not be forgotten.

DAN L. EDMUNDS, Ed.D.

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