TIL when Scottish psychiatrist R.D. Laing faced a naked schizophrenic woman rocking silently to and fro in a padded cell, he took off his own clothes and sat next to her, rocking to the same rhythm until she spoke for the first time in months.

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/jun/01/mentalhealth.society/



Submitted April 19, 2015 at 10:03PM by garglemymarbles http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/334zhs/til_when_scottish_psychiatrist_rd_laing_faced_a/