Not sure what prompted an
editorial in the Guardian about R.D. Laing in its Unthinkable? series. The editorial makes reference to a
production of Knots at the King's Head Theatre. It suggests it is time for a reassessment of Laing in "an era of big pharma and proliferating diagnoses". Samantha Bark in her
response says she was thrilled to see the editorial and makes reference to her PhD thesis on Laing, which I have added as a
link on my
articles critical of psychiatry webpage.
Critical psychiatry has never hidden its origins in the work of R.D. Laing (see my book chapter
Historical perspectives on anti-psychiatry). There were excesses in 'anti-psychiatry'. Critical psychiatry aims to avoid the marginalisation experienced by R.D. Laing and others like him designated as 'anti-psychiatrists'.
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