NP. those years again. R.D. Laing and anarchic psychotherapy?

[Michael Bailey]

Cool!  i think there is always stuff like that starting up and breaking
down --- tazzes

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporary_Autonomous_Zone but nice resonance
to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasmanian_Devil_(Looney_Tunes) therein, and
also
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Tageszeitung)

in the 60s it just seemed like more people were starting them with the idea
they'd catch on bigger and more permanently, and paying more attention to
them (imho)
a-and perhaps more innocently of some of the counter-currents they would
need to weather...

one last bit of response thereto: one wonders whether these blows for
freedom actually shape the policy of the oppressors, by determining what
they have to respond oppressively to...like the Vogon (although i have a
problem with blanket scorn for bureaucrats per se)

poets are the unacknowledged and so forth


On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 5:22 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

>  from a long piece in the Guardian in which many residents of Laing's
> Kingsley Hall talk...
>
> From 1965 until 1970, as radical ideas and hippie ideals blossomed then
> died in cities across the globe, a former community centre in Powis Road in
> the East End of London became the unlikely setting for Laing's most radical
> experiment in what came to be known as anti-psychiatry. "We have got
> Kingsley Hall and I have moved into it," Laing wrote to his colleague, Joe
> Berke, when he was granted an initial two-year lease. "Others will be
> moving in in the next two or three weeks... I take it you will pass the
> word around to relevant people. THIS IS IT."
>



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day/for lack/of what is found there” - William Carlos Williams
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