The co-director of “The Eradication of Schizophrenia in Western Lapland,” a play about Open Dialogue by the U.K. theater company Ridiculusmus, lists as influences “reading a book by the psychiatrist RD Laing as an undergraduate and ‘finding the idea of madness quite attractive’; another, being sectioned and discovering that ‘madness wasn’t so attractive after all.'” The Guardian says of the play “Madness looks confusing – and a lot like ordinary life – in this dramatic argument for a new way to treat mental illness.”
