The residents : stories of Kingsley Hall, East London, 165-1970 and the experimental community of RD Laing / Dominic Harris.

  • Harris, Dominic
Date:
[2012]
  • Books

About this work

Description

"The Philadelphia Association leased Kingsley Hall, in Bromley-by-Bow, East London, from 1965–1970 to house a large, live-in community of trained psychiatrists, helpers and characters with varying psychoses. It was neither a hospital nor an asylum, and if invited to stay, everyone became a resident and in theory equal. The person at the centre of this radical experiment was the charismatic psychiatrist RD Laing who had written the influential book The Divided Self in 1960 which aimed "…to make madness, and the process of going mad, comprehensible". This is a portrait of a community and their memory of people, time and place." -- From artist's website.

Publication/Creation

[London] : Dominic Harris, [2012]

Physical description

88 unnumbered pages : black and white illustrations portraits, plans ; 31 x 31 cm

Edition

Signed and numbered edition of 100.

Notes

The book and portraits from The Residents are part of the group show Voice of the Grain at Ambika P3, 35 Marylebone Road, London NW1, from 5 to 9 September 2012.
Copy 1. Title page signed by the author.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references.

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