Unstable histories

Reivew of Lucas Richert, Break on Through: Radical Psychiatry and the American Counterculture

Steffan Blayney ~ RP 2.07 (Spring 2020), pp. 104–107 ~ Review

Lucas Richert, Break on Through: Radical Psychiatry and the American Counterculture (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2019). 224pp., £22.00 hb., 978 0 26204 282 6 In May 1969, in the plush surroundings of Miami’s Americana Hotel, the ordinarily staid annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) became the flashpoint for a standoff which had been […]

A Critique of R. D. Laing’s Social Philosophy (Part 1)

Joe Warrington ~ RP 004 (Spring 1973) ~ Article

••••••••••••••••••••••••• a Eritique 01 R.D.lAln6’S SO[IAL PHILOSOPHV part 1 • JOE WARRID&TOD ••••••••••••••••••••••• •• Introduction No-one is an expert on the question as to what madness is, nor on its significance. This is a baffling yet fundamental field not just in theory but in relation to our very lives. Men like R D Laing have […]