Notes From The Underground - EPISODE3

The third erpisode of Notes from the Underground with Lee Harris
In this episode Lee talks about Kingsley Hall

Laings fame was closely connected with his role as Emperor of Kingsley Hall, a household founded by him and by a group of his acolytes. It was promoted as a place to which a person—whom psychiatrists would diagnose as schizophrenic—could retreat, secure in the knowledge that he would be neither coerced nor drugged. Day-to-day life in Kingsley Hall was based on the fiction that all the residents are equal, no one is a patient and no one is staff. The American psychiatrist Morton Schatzman, who had chosen to live there for a year, emphasized that No one who lives at Kingsley Hall sees those who perform work upon the external material world as staff, and those who do not as patients. This claim—that psychiatrists and residents share power equally—is the paradigmatic lie of the anti-psychiatrists. It is a revised version of the paradigmatic lie of the psychiatrists—the claim that depriving patients of liberty is care, not coercion.

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• Dr. Ronald Laing
• Kingsley Hall
• Clancy Sigal
• Cooper
• Laing
• Joseph Berke
• Leon Redler

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great stuff mate, keep it up!