1927 - 1989
Ronald David Laing (7 October 1927 – 23 August 1989), usually cited as R. D. Laing, was a Scottish psychiatrist who wrote extensively on mental illness—in particular, psychosis and schizophrenia. Laing's views on the causes and treatment of psychopathological phenomena were influenced by his study of existential philosophy and ran counter to the chemical and electroshock methods that had become psychiatric orthodoxy. Laing took the expressed feelings of the individual patient or client as valid descriptions of personal experience rather than simply as symptoms of mental illness. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of R. D. Laing has received more than 1,175,637 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 45 in 2019). R. D. Laing is the 117th most popular psychologist (down from 112th in 2019), the 1,309th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,182nd in 2019) and the 7th most popular British Psychologist.
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Among psychologists, R. D. Laing ranks 117 out of 183. Before him are Nicholas Miklouho-Maclay, Frederic Bartlett, Serge Moscovici, George Kelly, Ovide Decroly, and Jon Kabat-Zinn. After him are Robert Sternberg, Henri Wallon, Adolf Bastian, William McDougall, Robert Plutchik, and Robert Cialdini.
1846 - 1888
HPI: 57.42
Rank: 111
1886 - 1969
HPI: 57.41
Rank: 112
1925 - 2014
HPI: 57.37
Rank: 113
1905 - 1967
HPI: 57.30
Rank: 114
1871 - 1932
HPI: 57.22
Rank: 115
1944 - Present
HPI: 56.88
Rank: 116
1927 - 1989
HPI: 56.81
Rank: 117
1949 - Present
HPI: 56.68
Rank: 118
1879 - 1962
HPI: 56.64
Rank: 119
1826 - 1905
HPI: 56.62
Rank: 120
1871 - 1938
HPI: 56.51
Rank: 121
1927 - 2006
HPI: 56.44
Rank: 122
1945 - Present
HPI: 56.38
Rank: 123
Among people born in 1927, R. D. Laing ranks 97. Before him are Pierre Alechinsky, Günter Guillaume, Alfredo Kraus, Bob Fosse, Eldar Ryazanov, and Paul Badura-Skoda. After him are Dick Bruna, Robert Plutchik, François Furet, Vasile Milea, Sabah, and Marvin Harris. Among people deceased in 1989, R. D. Laing ranks 79. Before him are Victor French, Pérez Prado, Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev, Robert Mapplethorpe, Gaetano Scirea, and Giuseppe Siri. After him are Kateb Yacine, Albert Bormann, Charles Vanel, Hibari Misora, Vasile Milea, and Cesare Zavattini.
1927 - Present
HPI: 57.65
Rank: 91
1927 - 1995
HPI: 57.56
Rank: 92
1927 - 1999
HPI: 57.49
Rank: 93
1927 - 1987
HPI: 57.09
Rank: 94
1927 - 2015
HPI: 56.86
Rank: 95
1927 - 2019
HPI: 56.82
Rank: 96
1927 - 1989
HPI: 56.81
Rank: 97
1927 - 2017
HPI: 56.70
Rank: 98
1927 - 2006
HPI: 56.44
Rank: 99
1927 - 1997
HPI: 56.37
Rank: 100
1927 - 1989
HPI: 56.30
Rank: 101
1927 - 2014
HPI: 56.26
Rank: 102
1927 - 2001
HPI: 56.25
Rank: 103
1934 - 1989
HPI: 57.61
Rank: 73
1916 - 1989
HPI: 57.53
Rank: 74
1906 - 1989
HPI: 57.51
Rank: 75
1946 - 1989
HPI: 57.51
Rank: 76
1953 - 1989
HPI: 57.47
Rank: 77
1906 - 1989
HPI: 57.19
Rank: 78
1927 - 1989
HPI: 56.81
Rank: 79
1929 - 1989
HPI: 56.63
Rank: 80
1902 - 1989
HPI: 56.53
Rank: 81
1892 - 1989
HPI: 56.47
Rank: 82
1937 - 1989
HPI: 56.38
Rank: 83
1927 - 1989
HPI: 56.30
Rank: 84
1902 - 1989
HPI: 56.27
Rank: 85
Among people born in United Kingdom, R. D. Laing ranks 1,309 out of 7,765. Before him are Janick Gers (1957), Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers (1854), Wat Tyler (1341), Brenda Blethyn (1946), Steven Gerrard (1980), and Ralph Richardson (1902). After him are Ted Hughes (1930), Iain Glen (1961), Edward Frankland (1825), M. Stanley Whittingham (1941), Prince Edward, Duke of Kent (1935), and Ruth Rendell (1930).
1957 - Present
HPI: 56.83
Rank: 1,303
1854 - 1918
HPI: 56.83
Rank: 1,304
1341 - 1381
HPI: 56.82
Rank: 1,305
1946 - Present
HPI: 56.82
Rank: 1,306
1980 - Present
HPI: 56.82
Rank: 1,307
1902 - 1983
HPI: 56.81
Rank: 1,308
1927 - 1989
HPI: 56.81
Rank: 1,309
1930 - 1998
HPI: 56.80
Rank: 1,310
1961 - Present
HPI: 56.79
Rank: 1,311
1825 - 1899
HPI: 56.78
Rank: 1,312
1941 - Present
HPI: 56.76
Rank: 1,313
1935 - Present
HPI: 56.76
Rank: 1,314
1930 - 2015
HPI: 56.74
Rank: 1,315
Among psychologists born in United Kingdom, R. D. Laing ranks 7. Before him are John Bowlby (1907), Donald Winnicott (1896), Raymond Cattell (1905), Edward B. Titchener (1867), Charles Spearman (1863), and Frederic Bartlett (1886). After him are William McDougall (1871), Havelock Ellis (1859), Ernest Jones (1879), Alexander Bain (1818), Brenda Milner (1918), and Alan Baddeley (1934).
1907 - 1990
HPI: 66.97
Rank: 1
1896 - 1971
HPI: 65.78
Rank: 2
1905 - 1998
HPI: 64.12
Rank: 3
1867 - 1927
HPI: 62.00
Rank: 4
1863 - 1945
HPI: 58.76
Rank: 5
1886 - 1969
HPI: 57.41
Rank: 6
1927 - 1989
HPI: 56.81
Rank: 7
1871 - 1938
HPI: 56.51
Rank: 8
1859 - 1939
HPI: 54.52
Rank: 9
1879 - 1958
HPI: 54.47
Rank: 10
1818 - 1903
HPI: 52.39
Rank: 11
1918 - Present
HPI: 51.20
Rank: 12
1934 - Present
HPI: 50.10
Rank: 13