Scottish - Psychologist | October 7, 1927 - August 23, 1989
Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.
R. D. Laing
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Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.
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Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.
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Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.
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There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia', but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event.
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Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.
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We are all in a post-hypnotic trance induced in early infancy.
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Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane.
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If I don't know I don't know, I think I know. If I don't know I know, I think I don't know.
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The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.
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Rule A: Don't. Rule A1: Rule A doesn't exist. Rule A2: Do not discuss the existence or non-existence of Rules A, A1 or A2.
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True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.
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