R.D. Laing: A Dialog on Mental Illness and Its Treatment (1976)
1976 · Short film · 13 min
Synopsis
R.D. Laing answers Dr. Desmond Kelly's interview queries concerning the greatest success of his career in psychiatry and discusses schizophrenia, Freud's studies on hysteria, the semantics of psychiatry, the Kingsley Hall therapeutic experiment, the birth ritual, and his criticism of psychiatry
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Details
- Running time
- 13 minutes
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Educational Films, Ephemeral Films
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- Laing, R. D. (Ronald David), 1927-1989
- Antipsychiatry
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★★ · Wrong Film--Not About Mental Illness or R.D.Laing · EudaemonicPlague · 2019-07-11
This film is called To Be a Man, and has no apparent connection with R. D. Laing or mental illness. It was made in the 60s. Aside from not being the film it's supposed to be, it is an interesting look at what young people in the 60s were told meant to be a man, and their own views about that. I certainly found it worth watching.