ARTICLES & LINKS

ARTICLES & LINKS

"The Enigma of Happiness and Why It Is So Elusive," live video with Michael Guy Thompson and Fernando Castrillon as discussant at California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, April 16, 2019.

Read the paper, "The Enigma of Happiness and Why It Is So Elusive," by Michael Guy Thompson here.

"The Heart of the Matter: Eros and Agape," Michael Guy Thompson, PhD, R.D. Laing in the 21st Century Symposium, Esalen, Big Sur, July 23, 2018.

"On Falling in Love," Michael Guy Thompson, PhD, invited address, R.D. Laing in the 21st Century Symposium, Asilomar Conference Center, Pacific Grove, CA, July 17, 2017.

"On Sympathy: The Role of Love in the Therapeutic Encounter," M. Guy Thompson, PhD, an earlier version of this paper was given at R.D. Laing Symposium, Esalen, August 8, 2016.

"Sanity and Friendship," Michael Guy Thompson, PhD, an earlier version of this paper was presented at R.D. Laing Symposium, Esalen, July 15, 2015.

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"Authentic Connection in Madness," an interview conducted by Stacy Duffy on Psychosis Summit radio on December 13, 2018 with Dr. Michael Guy Thompson describing his work with R.D. Laing and his Gnosis Retreat Center project.

"Dr. Michael Guy Thompson: R. D. Laing, Spiritual Love, and The Politics of Experience" with Chris Cole – Cole Coaching, life coaching for bipolar disorder, spiritual awakening, and everything in between. First aired on July 20, 2018.

"Legacy of R.D. Laing," Michael Guy Thompson, on Madness Radio. Is psychosis a journey and a breakthrough to somewhere more authentic? Should unhappy people be made to adjust to a mad society? Scottish psychiatrist R.D. Laing was a fierce critic of the mental health system, and saw madness as a rational adaptation to irrational family and social constraints. How are Laing’s provocative insights about politics and culture still relevant today? First aired on April 12, 2018.

"Falling in Love as an Altered State," a public lecture given by Michael Guy Thompson at California Institute for Integral Studies, March 30, 2017.

"You Can't Teach Therapists How to Connect...," Peter Brensinger interview, R.D. Laing 2013 Symposium, October 2013: http://youtu.be/-Z5AYus_JAw

An interview with Michael Guy Thompson on The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour, reveals an incredible and enlightening story of working for four years with pioneer psychiatrist and philosopher R.D. Laing in one of his therapeutic houses. Recorded on October 2, 2013.

"Living in One of R.D. Laing's Post Kingsley Hall Households" by Michael Guy Thompson, blog posted on November 17, 2013 at Palace Gate Counselling Service: https://palacegatecounsellingservice.wordpress.com/2013/11/

"Authenticity and R.D. Laing" by Michael Guy Thompson, blog posted on December 5, 2011 at Northern Existential Group.

Information about the 2013 R.D. Laing Symposium held at Wagner University, Staten Island, New York. View conference topics, speakers and more details.

SPECIAL COLLECTION

The University of Glasgow holds an R.D. Laing collection including Laing's personal papers and library, acquired from his estate, plus the unedited footage of his 1972 US tour, presented by director Peter Robinson's son, Kenneth. (Click on the text to visit the website.)

RELEVANT ARTICLES ON R.D. LAING

"Human, all too human: The Life and Work of R.D. Laing," featuring interview with R.D. Laing by Douglas Kirsner, Ph.D.

"Shamanism, Healing and R.D. Laing" by Francis Huxley. duversity.org.

"Sparks of Light: Faith, Hope and R.D. Laing" by Daniel Burston. Dharmacafe.com.

"A Road Less Traveled: The Dark Side of R.D. Laing's Conception of Authenticity" by Michael Guy Thompson, Ph.D. Psychotherapy in Australia, Vol. 18, No. 2: February 2012.

"R. D. Laing’s Legacy to the Psychotherapy Experience" by M. Guy Thompson, Ph.D. The Psychotherapist (a publication of the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy [UKCP]). Issue 43, 2009.

"Awakening to Love: R.D. Laing's Phenomenological Therapy," by S. Gans. The Psychoanalyitc Review, Guilford Press, Volume 87, No. 4, August 2000.

"Remembering Ronnie" (with Steven Gans), Janus Head: The Legacy of R.D. Laing (special issue), 2000.

"The Fidelity to Experience in R. D. Laing’s Treatment Philosophy" by M. Guy Thompson, Ph.D. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Volume 33, No. 4:595-614, 1997.

"Deception, Mystification, Trauma: Laing and Freud" by M. Guy Thompson, Ph.D. The Psychoanalytic Review, Volume 83, No. 6:827-847, 1996.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

The Legacy of R.D. Laing: An Appraisal of His Contemporary Relevance. (Ed.) M. Guy Thompson, Editor. Order the book at Amazon here.  London and New York: Routledge, 2015.

Review by Alex Miller Tate of The Legacy of R.D. Laing: An Appraisal of His Contemporary Relevance, M. Guy Thompson, Editor.

R.D. Laing: 50 Years Since the Divided Self, Theodor Itten & Courtenay Young, Editors. PCCS Books, UK, 2013.

The Little Book of Goodness, by S. Gans. Booklocker, 2003. (Kindle)

Just Listening: Ethics and Therapy (with Leon Redler), S. Gans. Xlibris, 2001. (Kindle)

"What is Ethical Analysis?" by S. Gans. Journal of the Society for Existential Analysis. Volume 10.2 - Views Of Heidegger, 1999.

"Questioning Existential Analysis Today," by S. Gans. Journal of the Society for Existential Analysis. Volume 1, 1990.

"Levinas and Freud: Talmudic Reflections in Ethics and Psychoanalysis" by S. Gans in Facing the Other: The Ethics of Emmanuel Levinas, by Sean Hand, Curzon Press.