Part I
1: Portrait of the psychiatrist as a young man 1927-1960
2: Portrait of the psychiatrist as an intellectual. Laing's early,
notebooks, personal library, essays, papers, and talks
3: Laing and psychiatric theory
4: Laing and existential-phenomenology
5: Laing and Religion
6: Laing and the Arts
Part II
7: Laing in the Army
8: Gartnavel Hospital and the 'Rumpus Room'
9: Individual patients at Gartnavel
10: Laing at the Southern General Hospital
11: Laing in London
12: The Divided Self
Dr Allan Beveridge is a Consultant Psychiatrist at the Queen
Margaret Hospital in Dunfermline. He lectures at the Department of
Psychiatry of Edinburgh University and also at Queen Margaret
College on the history of psychiatry, and on art and mental
illness. He is an assistant editor of the British Journal of
Psychiatry, where he edits the "Psychiatry in Pictures " series and
is one of the Book Review Editors. He is an assistant editor of
History of Psychiatry,
where he is also one of the Book Review Editors. He has over 60
publications, including 8 book chapters, on such subjects as the
history of psychiatry, ethics, and the relation of the arts to
mental
illness. He has written about Robert Burns, Robert Fergusson, James
Boswell, Dostoyevsky, Kafka, Edvard Munch, Iain Crichton Smith and
Charles Altamont Doyle. In 2006 he was awarded a Wellcome clinical
leave research grant to study the early writings and private papers
of R.D. Laing.
Where Beveridge succeeds is by providing an understanding of the
diverse range of Laing's interests and their relevance to all in
psychiatry when considering mental illness and the patient's
experience.
*Greg Neate, Journal of Mental Health Vol. 22.2*
While Laing was of course a psychiatrist I would recommend this
book to any aspiring clinical psychologist ( as well as trainees
and practicing psychologists) because it gives an absorbing account
of Laings struggle in his early career to understand and
conceptualise mental illness, something which I think anyone
working in mental health can appreciate.
Allan Beveridge has produced a critical yet still sympathetic
account of Laing who posed questions of the psychiatric world which
still demand an answer today. This book will be of interest to
mental health workers and social historians as well as all those
interested in the history and philosophy of psychiatry.
*Versalius*
The series International Perspectives in Philosphy and Psychiatry
is the right place for this erudite review and commentary on the
thinking, opinions and writings of R.D. Laing.
*Alcohol and AlcoholismSocial History of Medicine*
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