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31

Kingsley Hall: An Island? Exploring Archival Accounts of Life at the Hall

by UCL Health Humanities Centre / Institute of Advanced Studies

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Mon, 31 July 2017

18:00 – 19:30 BST

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UCL SELCS Common Room, Foster Court (ground floor, G24), Malet Place

Malet Place

London

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Kingsley Hall: An Island? Exploring Archival Accounts of Life at the Hall.

Dr. Adrian Chapman (Florida State University)

Kingsley Hall was radical therapeutic community established by R. D. Laing in 1965 (and that ran until 1970) in the East End of London. Here I turn to archival accounts of life at the Hall by residents and visitors. These accounts are from a book (never published) about Kingsley Hall and other communities established by the Laing network in the 70s. In his introduction to the book (the most stable title of which was Asylum: To Dwell in Strangeness), Laing engages in a debate with his former collaborator, David Cooper, who had spoken derisively of the Hall and other communities as “happy islands”, isolated zones of pseudo-freedom. Following a consideration of the aims, scope, history and marketability of the book project, I take the island metaphor as my starting point for exploring archival materials. This route allows me to trace significant connections and dissonances among several contributors to Asylum: To Dwell in Strangeness, and offers rich possibilities for interrogating the nature of the Hall and the radical psychiatry associated with R. D. Laing. In particular, I want to examine debates around the politics of the Kingsley Hall project; the relation of the Hall to its surrounding area in the East End; as well as the relation of Laing and his project to mainstream psychiatry, and to 1960s counterculture.

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