Films and Plays On R.D. Laing
- Ah, Sunflower (1967). Short film by Robert Klinkert and Iain Sinclair, filmed around the Dialectics of Liberation conference and featuring Laing, Allen Ginsberg, Stokely Carmichael and others.
- Cain's Film (1969). Short film by Jamie Wadhawan on Alexander Trocchi, featuring other counter-cultural figures in London at the time including Laing, William Burroughs and Davy Graham.
- Family Life (1971). Reworking of the Wednesday play In Two Minds that "explored the issue of schizophrenia and the ideas of the radical psychiatrist R. D. Laing". Directed by Ken Loach.
- Asylum (1972). Documentary directed by Peter Robinson showing Laing's psychiatric community project where patients and therapists lived together. Laing also appears in the film.
- Knots (1975). Film adapted from Laing's 1970 book and Edward Petherbridge's play.
- How Does It Feel? (1976). Documentary on physical senses and creativity featuring Laing, Joseph Beuys, David Hockney, Elkie Brooks, Michael Tippett and Richard Gregory.
- Birth with R.D. Laing (1978). Documentary on the "institutionalization of childbirth practices in Western society".
- R.D. Laing's Glasgow (1979). An episode of the Canadian TV series Cities.
- Did You Used to be R.D. Laing? (1989). Documentary portrait of Laing by Kirk Tougas and Tom Shandel. Adapted for the stage in 2000 by Mike Maran.
- Eros, Love & Lies (1990). Documentary on Laing.
- What You See Is Where You're At (2001). A collage of found footage by Luke Fowler on Laing's experiment in alternative therapy at Kingsley Hall.
- All Divided Selves (2011). Another collage of archive material and new footage by Luke Fowler.
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