Resources
on
the Net

BOOK EXCERPTS ONLINE

Extended quotes from Knots in English, Italian, and Russian [1, 2].

Politics of Experience Chapter One - complete text is available at Marxists.org

Politics of Experience, excerpts from Chapter Three and Chapter One available at one of the Lycaeum-hosted sites.

From the Mullan book, R.D. Laing: Creative Destroyer, Van Morrison in Conversation with R.D. Laing

NEWSLISTS AND DISCUSSION GROUPS

The Unofficial R.D. Laing Discussion Forum
Welcomes the recent addition of the Voodoo Lounge, an open-topic, unmoderated forum for the various frankles and tangles, whirligogs and thought-motes in need of a place to settle.

An R.D. Laing Discussion Group on Yahoo hosted by Victor Barbetti.

The Academy for the Study of Psychoanalytic Arts offers a Listgroup for those interested in examining specialised topics in theory, philosophy and practice.

Vicnet offers a first-rate discussion forum on Existentialism in psychology as well as philosophy from Victoria (Australia)

Just Listening Hosted by Steve Gans and Leon Redler.
Features bios, articles and an online discussion forum by registration.

Radical Psychology Network e-mail list

REFERENCE SITES

The R.D. Laing Collection
Glasgow University Library's large collection of Laing's personal documents. Item descriptions are available in the searchable catalog of manuscripts, transcripts, letters, journals and the like.

Laing's notation
David Kenny's excellent, concise guide. A must for anyone who has ever lost their way in the A(B) = A(C) of it all.

A summary of important concepts in Laingian thought.

Disinfo's dossier on R.D. Laing.

EXISTENTIAL AND ALTERNATIVE PSYCHIATRY SOURCES

New Alchemy
New-Alchemy.net extends a primarily Jungian focus to "...encompass the science and spirituality of both East and West, ancient and new". Selected readings in AP and articles published on the site, with links to the best sources on the Web for anyone who would like to become familiar with Eastern religion as well as examine western thought and spirituality more deeply. Highly recommended.

International Network on Personal Meaning is
"...a multi-and inter-disciplinary network, linking people from different professions and academic disciplines...involving people everywhere interested in promoting happiness and peace through personal Meaning".

The Academy of Psychoanalytic Arts
Approaches psychoanalytic epistemology, theory, practice, ethics, and education within a psychological framework consisting of philosophy, the arts, and the anthropic sciences as opposed to biology, medicine, and the natural sciences." Offers a carefully-annotated list of recommended links to resources on the Net in addition to publishing an impressive library of articles.

Duncan Double's Critical Psychiatry Page
Duncan Double is a social psychiatrist in England who uses 'antipsychiatric' ideas to develop more humane attitudes within psychiatry.

Towards an Ecology of Mind
An interesting piece of avant-garde philosophy that employs the ideas of Laing along with other thinkers such as Gregory Bateson and Humberto Maturana.

Centre for Psychotherapeutic Studies, University of Sheffield
The essential stopping off point on the web for anybody interested in critical approaches to mental health issues.

The Double Bind: The Intimate Tie Between Behavior and Communication
Introduction to Bateson's Double Bind theory, which influenced Laing's theories on schizophrenia.

Richard Webster's Website
Skeptical essays and reviews on psychoanalysis, structuralism, modern witch-hunts and the religious origins of modern rationalism. The site includes illuminating essays on Darwin, on the history and psychology of western science, on the hidden authoritarianism of liberalism and on the role played by collective fantasies in history.

Mythos and Logos
Brent Dean Robbins (co-editor of Janus Head) has made resources on existentialism, psychoanalysis, history of science, mysticism and more available online at this new site.

Otto Gross.org
A comprehensive online resource on the life and work of Otto Gross, who symbolised "...the search for a better society, for the dissolution of repressive relationships between the sexes, for utopias in times that lack strong concepts and meaning.

The Realm of Existentialism
An extremely well designed resource on existentialism.

Existential Psychotherapy
Introduction to the use of existentialism in psychotherapy.

Epistemology, Consciousness and the Mind
Highly recommended reference page of links to articles and listgroups online.

Psychminded.co.uk
Although clinicians and other professionals represent the core of the daily visitors, psychminded is independent of any professional society. This allows them to accomodate different theoretical models, and allows a platform for varied perspectives. A very informative site, also includes a general enquiries message forum and a section called 'critical minded'.

(ISMHO) The International Society for Mental Health Online
Founded in 1997, contains an extensive page of links to psychology and mental health resources on the net.

23NLPeople - The Resource Page for NLP and Neurology
Neuro-Linguistic Programming and Antipsychiatry resources.

The Halcyon
Humanistic, transpersonal and quantum psychology links.

Philosophy of Psychiatry Bibliography

MISCELLANEOUS LINKS

Do you read me, r.d. laing?
A poetical work by Christopher George Kypreos
London-based American poet, CG Kypreos has woven a number of epiphanic moments into a contemporary odyssey. His style is pitched somewhere between prose and poetry, blurring the boundary between the two; a personal history of the latter two-thirds of the 20th century, and includes reminiscences of Robert Frost, William Carlos Williams, Louis Simpson, Saul Bellow, Allen Ginsberg,William Burroughs, Ken Kesey, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Edward Ardizzone, and R.D. Laing, among others.

Mike Maran's stage adaptation of Did You Used To Be R.D. Laing?

An unusual Laing Page at Fusionanomaly.

Robert Anton Wilson site
The celebrated novelist, philosopher and (according to Tom Robbins) fellow Luminary of Timbuktu University with R.D. Laing, Carlos Castaneda, John Lilly, Timothy Leary, Fritjof Capra and others.

Roberta Russell's LifeTalk Pages
A "Virtual Academy" online featuring bibliography and links to current projects as well as videos of interviews with such notables as Hans Eysenck.

Kingsley Hall
The historic building that served as home to the first of the therapeutic communities run by the Philadelphia Association.

Survival International
A human rights charity working on behalf of tribal peoples.

Fortean Times
The journal of unusual phenomena.

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