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As Jutta and her two surviving children paid their last respects to Adam at a private cremation on Friday, perhaps they remembered the essence of these words. Perhaps they recalled the Janus-like brilliance of their late husband and father, his gentleness and his wildness; his charismatic charm and his unpredictability; the sharpness of his thoughts, and the drunkenness that blurred them.

Another psychologist who went down a similar road, although he was also focused on mind-body integration as well, is Arnold Mindell. I think you would his book "City Shadows" to be familiar territory; it's about how insane people are often actually just acting out the group's psychosis, acting out the buried shadow of the group, as it were. Another form of sane response to an insane world.R.D. Laing; Guru of '60s Counterculture". Los Angeles Times. 25 August 1989 . Retrieved 27 January 2020.

Turnbull, Ronnie; Beveridge, Craig (1988), "R.D. Laing and Scottish Philosophy", Edinburgh Review, 78–9: 126–127, ISSN 0267-6672 Laing, Adrian (1994). R.D. Laing: A Life. London: HarperCollinsPublishers. pp.165–166. ISBN 0-00-638829-9.Conjecture about his death continued, rumours swirling around the beachside bars and restaurants of the island. There was talk of Adam's partying lifestyle, his free-spirited take on life and his occasional bouts of depression and heavy drinking. Over the last few years he had made a haphazard living skippering yachts for day-trippers or as an odd-job man in the quiet winter months. He was a regular at the Bar es Cap, where owner Mariano Mayans remembers him as 'a good man who liked his drink but could handle it.' A sailor at heart, Adam had crossed the Atlantic 11 times and was, by all accounts, a restless soul. I think it must have been just about this time that I first heard Patti Smith’s opening to ‘Gloria’: Laing was born in the Govanhill district of Glasgow on 7 October 1927, the only child of civil engineer David Park MacNair Laing and Amelia Glen Laing (née Kirkwood). [6] :7 Laing described his parents — his mother especially — as being somewhat anti-social, and demanding the maximum achievement from him. Although his biographer son largely discounted Laing's account of his childhood, an obituary by an acquaintance of Laing asserted that about his parents– "the full truth he told only to a few close friends". [7] [8] His third daughter Karen was born in Glasgow in 1955 and is now a pracitising psychotherapist. Burston, Daniel (1998), The Wing of Madness: The Life and Work of R. D. Laing, Harvard University Press, p.125, ISBN 0-674-95359-2

According to my principles I should rate this a 4*, as I reserve 5* as a strong recommendation for all readers, and without very close attention this will seem like nonsense to many readers (as is the case for all poetry). But I'm very much on Laing's wavelength. I give it 5* as I think this poem summarizes the logic of relationship failures, in a way that provides a fundamental, deep and timeless understanding of emotions. It's essentially condensing archetypal patterns in relationship disputes, and so it saves a lot of mental processing time normally demanded to recognize and increase our chances of intentionally avoiding these written, spoken and thought patterns in our own experiences, should we wish to avoid or diffuse interpersonal (or even intrapersonal) conflict.

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Various – Miniatures (A Sequence of Fifty-One Tiny Masterpieces Edited by Morgan Fisher) (Vinyl, LP, Album)". discogs.com. Discogs . Retrieved 4 October 2016.

The scary thing about so many of these systems is that there is never any way they could be proved wrong. If there is no evidence that can be marshalled to refute Freud or Laing or the Christian preacher then I don't get why they think they need any evidence ever. You just believe what you believe and evidence to the contrary (or in support, even) is completely irrelevant.Laing expanded the view of the " double bind" hypothesis put forth by Bateson and his team, and came up with a new concept to describe the highly complex situation that unfolds in the process of "going mad" — an "incompatible knot". A common manoeuvre. Elusion is a way of getting round conflict without direct confrontation, or its resolution. It eludes conflict by playing off one modality of experience against another. She imagines she is not married and then imagines she is. Elusive spirals go on and on. [17] Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary OL9300838M Openlibrary_edition But Laing seemed to mellow with the passing of the years. To his second family with Jutta - Natasha, now 38, Max, 32, and Adam - and to his two youngest children with different women - Benjamin, 23, and Charles, 20 - he proved a more kindly father. Adrian was gradually reconciled with him over the years, coming to stay with his half-siblings when he studied for his bar exams in London. 'Ronnie was clear, kind, warm-hearted and sagacious,' says Theodor Itten, who knew him in this later period. 'He was very gentle with his family. Once he told me that in his first family he had hit his children because he didn't know any better. I was surprised because I always thought Ronnie had been the Ronnie I knew, very playful and comforting as a father.' Laing, R.D. (1960) The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness. Harmondsworth: Penguin.