Eugene Landy, psychologist who treated Brian Wilson, dies at 71

[mike thornton]

ron and surfer joe...yes, dead.  during this "respectful" period.

[♩♬🐸 Billy C ♯♫♩🐇]

Another thing I find off is that he died a *week* ago, and we're just now hearing about it.

There's a lot I could say, but I won't say it in this thread, or at this time, for a respectful period, other than Rest In Peace, and condolences to his family and friends.  This is not a time of judgement.

Same here. There's a lot I *want* to say, really, but I won't. Not yet.

[mike8902]

ding dong landys dead

[Surfer Joe]

I'm not saying anyone else needs to be respectful of someone on the day they die, that's just part of my own values, I'm speaking for me only.  I'm generally much more on the irreverent side of things, but I'm not a piss-all-over-everything-all-the-time guy, or if I ever was, I've long since outgrown it, and I think there's a time to let things slide- even something as priceless and rare as a personal opinion . 

Besides, I'm saving it all for the day that Dan Hill merges with the infinite.  Got a bottle put away.

[bossaroo]

Brian must be saddened by this news.  He really loved ol' Gene-o.

Can someone please post some good photos of Brian and the doc?  I can't find crap on the web.

[absinthe_boy]

What do I think?
A person has died, and Eugene Landy must have had family and friends who will mourn his passing  My condolences go out to all who miss him. Was he a 'bad' person? Not for me to know...he probably saved Brian's life but in the video footage I've seen, he seemd to treat Brian as a project rather than a person. By the 90's things were really awful, was it a conscious decision to take over Brian's life or did Landy just slip further into it? Did he perhaps still think he was doing good? Not for us to know...

What will Brian make of Landy's passing?
Up to the man himself to say, should he choose...but he did say in the Larry King interview in '04 that he sometimes misses Landy. I suspect there will be some sadness, and I do wonder just how much Brian remembers of the worst of the Landy years (he was pretty drugged up).  We must remember that Landy and his people were Brian's 'family' for some years.

[DJ M]

http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/114371158197520.xml&coll=2
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/03/31/db3102.xml&sSheet=/portal/2006/03/31/ixportal.html
http://www.ktvu.com/entertainment/8337602/detail.html

[bossaroo]

can someone PLEASE post some good pics of Brian w/Landy.  I seriously can't find anything online.  thanks!

[♩♬🐸 Billy C ♯♫♩🐇]

Only one I can find so far.

[XY]

[NC]

Please, no pictures of Landy during the hideous, bleached blonde era. Or any of the pics of him with Brian on the surfboard.

[uk hound dog]

Hello all, first post here, greetings and all that...
Fill me in, one of those articles says that "Wilson's family" stopped the whole Landy charade. Who was that then? Was it Carl? Melinda? Marilyn? Or just, you know, lawyers? How did they go about the whole 'hey, we don't want you around anymore' thing, especially considering the whole Landy-didn't-want-Brian-to-have-anything-to-do-with-Carl-et-al thing. I'd like to think that it was Carl, but I might be wrong.

[♩♬🐸 Billy C ♯♫♩🐇]

All of them, plus Audree.

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Please, no pictures of Landy during the hideous, bleached blonde era. Or any of the pics of him with Brian on the surfboard.

Who was bleached blond?  Landy, or Brian?  I rather liked Brian with blond hair, as he appears in the theremin documentary.  Or with blond streaks, as he had before that.  What I could live without is Brian in a Speedo, sprawled over a piano.  Inappropriate!

[♩♬🐸 Billy C ♯♫♩🐇]

Landy. As odd as it may seem, there are pictures of Landy with horribly bleached hair, looking like the guy from Def Leppard does now.

[cta]

How about an epitaph on his stone?

MIKE LOVE SUCKS

IT'S GREEN!

(fill in cheesiest Sweet Insanity lyric)

[Aegir]

Oh man, that is so not the visual image I had of Landy.. I had always imagined him as a creepy frowning gray-haired elderly guy with glasses.

[dennyfan]

In 1971 he published The Underground Dictionary, a lexicon of the hippie jargon that Landy had picked up in his work at a community health centre for young people, much of it drug- and sex-related.

So, he basically wrote a version of "How to speak Hip"!

[NC]

What I could live without is Brian in a Speedo, sprawled over a piano.  Inappropriate!

Amen. I've had nightmares.

[Ethan]

The pic w/ Brian and Bush Snr is not 1987 (beard was gone and so was a feww more pounds), one would assume the pic w/ Lindsey Buckingham would be circa '87 writing HCGHPOBTM for the BW'88 album sessions.

[♩♬🐸 Billy C ♯♫♩🐇]

That's what I was thinking too. Looks like 1983 or 1984. In '87, Brian was BONY.

[Peter Reum]

Milieu therapy as adapted by Eugene Landy was somewhat of a twist of the traditional institutional approach. In essence, if the patient wouldn't go to the institution, Landy brought the institution to the patient.

There is an element of therapeutical control in milieu therapy that can intoxicatingly play right into the hands of codependence, and push the therapeutic relationship over the ethical line into where the professional is doing ALL the work and the patient is passively complying, enjoying the ride, espcially if he is a dependent personality like Brian.

The idea of therapy is that the PATIENT does the work, the transforming. What occured in the Landy and Wilson relationship was a form of therapeutic jiu-jitsu. Brian's passive dependence, played right into Landy's huge ego, and Landy somehow got the idea that he was the one doing the transforming of Brian.

The first rule of therapy is to keep the therapist's ego OUT of the mix. The patient does the work, the patient transforms himself. This is the crux of what happened with Landy. He somehow thought he was transforming Brian, when in fact, Brian transformed him. What an ultramaroon. Brian Wilson played him like a banjo.

[Howdy Doody]

Landy saved Brian Wilson but in alot of ways destroyed him as well even further.

[Bittersweet-Sanity]

Dr. Landy died 10 yrs ago today (March 22nd, 2006)

R.I.P. Gene!

[Andrew G. Doe]

More like ROH (rot in hell).