Ronald David Laing (1927-1989) - one of the most famous figures of the 1960s. and the most popular psychiatrist of the century after 3. Freud and C. G. Jung. His view of the nature of madness and revolutionary activity forever changed the face of psychiatry, his books, published in millions of copies and translated into more than twenty languages, are read like novels and manifestos, and his bright individuality is still controversial among biographers and critics. Laing's first Russian-language biography, built on original sources, recreates the outline of his life and work, the main ideas of his works and projects, representing his figure in the unity of many images - a psychiatrist and antipsychiatrist, philosopher and social critic, guru and revolutionary.