He was a guru to the Beatles and a brilliant psychiatrist who redefined the family — but his own children remember only drink, adultery and violence. Russell Miller investigates the madness of RD Laing. Photograph: Kieran Dodds

nicely put and in a positive way. But what about prevalence of mental illness in other professions? And what about the percentage of orthopedics (for example) who had a broken bone before getting into it ?!

approacheswhich fundamentally challenge the theory or practice of mainstream psychiatry and biological psychiatry in particular