How Scottish was R. D. Laing
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19445342 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Greg Miller (0000-0002-3144-8233, Manchester Metropolitan University, corresponding author), Gavin Miller |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 226-232 |
| Publication date | 2009-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History of Psychiatry (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0957-154X • E-ISSN: 1740-2360 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0957154x08101223 |
| OpenAlex | W1968198645 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 7 |
R. D. Laing was indebted, although not exclusively or uncritically, to his early Scottish intellectual context. He engaged, for instance, throughout his life with the ideas of the Scottish philosopher John Macmurray. Despite the relative lack of scholarship on twentieth-century Scottish thought, it is possible to trace Laing's participation in a tradition of the importation and translation of Continental ideas (exemplified by scholars such as the theologian Ronald Gregor Smith). Laing adapted Continental ideas to a particularly Scottish concern with psychotherapy as a form of demythologized Christianity; this is apparent in his latent affinity with the Scottish psychoanalyst W. R. D. Fairbairn, and also in his explicitly Christian reconceptualization of the Jungian concept of metanoia
Archaeology · Christianity · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Scholarship · Sociology · Classics · History · Jungian Analytical Psychology · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Religious studies · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices
| Citations per year | 0.21 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2012 - 2018 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |