R D Laing, from a contemporary perspective, is admired as a pioneer of ideas and a charismatic and prominent anti-psychiatrist. This book reveals, however, that Laing's view of sanity and insanity as a continuum and his opposition to high-dosage anti-psychotic medication already formed part of the Scottish psychiatric tradition.

Author Isobel Hunter-Brown, who worked alongside R.D. Laing in Glasgow, seeks to set the record straight. From the contemporary perspective, Laing is admired both as a pioneer of ideas and as a charismatic and prominent anti-psychiatrist. Hunter-Brown rev