Mad To Be Normal
Synopsis (Short)
During the 1960s, a renegade Scottish psychiatrist courts controversy within his profession for his approach to the field, and for the unique community he creates for his patients to inhabit.
Synopsis (Long)
David Tennant of Doctor Who fame stars as 1960’s celebrity psychiatrist R.D.Laing who revolutionised 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.
Written By
Robert Mullan & Tracy Moreton
Director
Robert Mullan
Produced By
Phin Glynn
Alan Latham
Charlotte Arden
Executive Producers:
Peter Dunphy
Norman Merry
Victor Glynn
Julian Hicks
Kirsty Bell
Charlie Wood
Peter Hampden
Cast
David Tennant
Elisabeth Moss
Michael Gambon
Gabriel Byrne
David Bamber
Olivia Poulet
