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Did You Used to Be R. D. Laing?

Canada, 1989
film

Scottish psychiatrist, R.D. Laing, who died in 1989 shortly after this film was made, gained a reputation for his radical objection to conventional psychiatry..

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Under stress

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Let there be light

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[Mental Hygiene Authority 1961]

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What's mad to you? Part 1: Glimpses from psychiatrists

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Man to man

United States, 1954
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