The residents of RD Laing's Kingsley Hall – in pictures

Dorothee von Grieff : resident 1968-69
"Ronnie Lang was a shaman, he had an incredible gift just to listen, to be in the present, to tune into the other person's world and experience, and I had never met that before."
Photograph: Dominic Harris

Francis Gillet: resident 1966-70
"Ronnie [Laing] said, 'Go mad, young man', and I did. I took him at his word, and I went as mad as I possibly could, and at no time did he try and stop me." Photograph: Dominic Harris

James Greene: visitor 1966-68, resident 1968-69
"I did something that was against the whole ideology of the place: I tried to have [another resident] sectioned." Photograph: Dominic Harris

Jutta Laing: resident, 1966-67
"Ronnie was one of those people who you either loved or misunderstood. Some people thought he was crazy himself." Photograph: Dominic Harris

Pamela Lee: resident, 1967-68 "I remember that the people around us [local residents] didn't actually like us very much." Photograph: Dominic Harris

The 'incredibly charismatic' RD Laing at Kingsley Hall, 1965 Photograph: Dorothee von Grieff

Evening meal at Kingsley Hall, 1965 Photograph: Dorothee von Grieff

Helen, a resident, plays guitar on the roof at Kingsley Hall in 1965 Photograph: Dorothee von Grieff