Volume 43, Number 18 · November 14, 1996
The Rise & Fall of a Half-Genius
By Rosemary Dinnage
The Wing of Madness: The Life and Work of R.D. Laing
by Daniel Burston
Harvard University Press, 275 pp., $35.00
Mad to be Normal: Conversations with R.D. Laing
by Bob Mullan
London: Free Association Books, 394 pp., $22.95 (paper)
'I actually wanted to help,' says R.D. Laing, of his lifelong psychiatric work, to Bob Mullan in Mad to be Normal (with the qualification 'maybe sentimentally or of some schmucky compassion for other people').
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