R. D. Laing (1927–1989)

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1. R. D. Laing

   Author of The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness, Knots, Sanity, Madness and the Family: Families of Schizophrenics

2. Sigmund Freud

   Author of The Interpretation of Dreams, Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis, Future of an Illusion

3. Erich Fromm

   Author of The Art of Loving, The Fear of Freedom, The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness

4. Herbert Marcuse

   Author of One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society, Eros and Civilization : A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud, Reason and Revolution : Hegel and the Rise of Social Theory

5. Jean-Paul Sartre

   Author of Search for a Method, Situations, Literary Essays

6. Carl Jung

   Author of Man and his Symbols, Memories, Dreams, Reflections, Psychological Types

7. Erving Goffman

   Author of The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity, Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates

8. Carlos Castaneda

   Author of The teachings of don Juan: a Yaqui way of knowledge, Journey To Ixtlan, Tales of Power

9. Gregory Bateson

   Author of Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology, Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity (Advances in Systems Theory, Complexity, and the Human Sciences)

10. Thomas Stephen Szasz

    Author of The Myth of Mental Illness: Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct (Revised Edition), The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement, Ideology and Insanity: Essays on the Psychiatric Dehumanization of Man

11. Norman Oliver Brown

    Author of Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History, Love's Body

12. Eric Berne

    Author of Games People Play: The Psychology of Human Relationships, What Do You Say After You Say Hello?, Sex in Human Loving

13. Erik H. Erikson

    Author of Childhood and Society, Identity: Youth and Crisis, Insight and Responsibility: Lectures on the Ethical Implications of Psychoanalytical Insight

14. Marshall McLuhan

    Author of Understanding Media, The Medium is the Massage

15. Abraham H. Maslow

    Author of Toward A Psychology of Being, The Farther Reaches of Human Nature, Motivation and Personality

16. Peter L. Berger

    Author of The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge

17. Ernest Becker

    Author of The Denial of Death, The Birth and Death of Meaning

18. Maurice Merleau-Ponty

    Author of The Visible and the Invisible, The Primacy of Perception: And Other Essays on Phenomenological Psychology, the Philosophy of Art, History and Politics, Adventures of the Dialectic

19. Carl R. Rogers

    Author of On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy, Carl Rogers on Encounter Groups

20. Rollo May

    Author of Love and Will, The Discovery of Being: Writings in Existential Psychology