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Laing

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Laing  (lng), R(onald) D(avid) 1927-1989.
British writer and psychiatrist. His works, including The Politics of Experience (1967) and The Facts of Life (1976), explore psychosis as a reaction to a dehumanized, irrational society.
Laing [leɪŋ]
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(Biographies / Laing, R(onald) D(avid) (1927-1989) M, Scottish, MEDICINE: psychiatrist) R(onald) D(avid). 1927-89, Scottish psychiatrist; his best known books include The Divided Self (1960), The Politics of Experience and the Bird of Paradise (1967), and Knots (1970)


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Samuel Laing says that "the Laplander in his skin dress, and in a skin bag which he puts over his head and shoulders, will sleep night after night on the snow .
Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Thoreau, Henry David View in context
* and has been reprinted by Mr David Laing, Edinburgh.
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