Ronald David Laing was a Scottish psychiatrist who had a specific interest in psychosis and mental illness. His views on the causes and treatments of mental dysfunction were influenced greatly by existential philosophy, but they also went against the standard views and ideas of existential philosophy at that time. Laing had a strange childhood growing up. His father didn’t get along with his brother often times, and his mother has been described as “psychologically peculiar” due to her behavior at certain times. This went on in his household while he himself suffered from episodic alcoholism and clinical depression. I personally believe that all of the problems that him and his family were going through had a big influence on his interest in