The New Politics of Experience and R. D. Laing’s Old “New Ideas” Cover Image

Nova Politika doživljaja i R. D. Laingove stare »nove ideje«
The New Politics of Experience and R. D. Laing’s Old “New Ideas”

Author(s): Theodor Itten
Subject(s): Psychology, Recent History (1900 till today), Phenomenology
Published by: Hrvatsko Filozofsko Društvo
Keywords: Ronald David Laing; aporias of psyche; New Politics of Experience; integrative psychotherapy;

Summary/Abstract: The psychotherapeutic legacy of R. D. Laing and his new take on Scottish psychodynamic psychiatry, in whose heritage he practised – “the patients are like you and me” – are explored. His testimony of experience as a psychoanalyst and theoretician, within the field of so-called “anti-psychiatry”, “radical psychiatry” and “avanti-psychiatry”, with the anger and outrage expressed towards the impersonal nature of modern psychiatry, the malign influence of the pharmaceutical industry, the alienating character of modern university education, spanning from the mid 1960’s to late 1980’s, are critically elaborated. The focus of the New Politics of Experience on radical social thinking and interdisciplinary study is based on social phenomenological empirical research and the development of an integrative psychotherapeutic approach.

  • Issue Year: 39/2019
  • Issue No: 01/153
  • Page Range: 9-16
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Croatian