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Revolutionary Psychiatrist RD Laing
The man who changed the way people thought about mental illness. He became famous for rejecting traditional psychiatric drug treatments in favour of talking to patients.
The man who changed the way people thought about mental illness. RD Laing became famous in the 1960s for rejecting traditional psychiatric drug treatments in favour of talking to patients.
Photo: 3rd February 1967: British psychiatrist R D Laing attends a discussion on the legalisation of marijuana. (Photo by Stan Meagher/Express/Getty Images)
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