
Mad to Be Normal
(2017)
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Synopsis
David Tennant of Doctor Who fame stars as 1960’s celebrity psychiatrist R.D.Laing who revolutionized the treatment of people diagnosed as ‘mad’. Mad To Be Normal reveals the story of R.D. Laing, the famous psychiatrist and one of Scotland’s greatest ever minds. Working out of Kingsley Hall in East London throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Laing performed various daring experiments on people who were diagnosed as mentally disturbed. His revolutionary methods involved experimenting with LSD on his patients and practicing a form of self-¬healing known as metanoia, causing outrage and controversy in the medical profession and radically changing attitudes and perceptions of mental health around the world.
Directors
Robert Mullan, Robert Mullan, Alan Latham, Harriet Hammond, Kirsty Bell, Casey Williams, Curtis Rivers
Production year
2017
Rating
Studio
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Runtime
106 minutes
Cast
Elisabeth Moss, David Bamber, David Tennant, Gabriel Byrne, Michael Gambon