In 1965, Laing, Cooper and Aaron Esterson founded the Philadelphia
Association, which aimed to create centers to host
people with mental illness. It opened three "homes" of this kind, the most famous
which was Kingsley Hall, which operated between 1965 and 1970 in an old building
London. In Kingsley Hall there were no rules whatsoever,
residents did what they wanted, doctors and patients
lived in conditions of absolute equality, and the cases of patients could perform
their "journey regressive" to settle then in a more "authentic"
