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