A psychiatrist who professes to be a healer of souls, but who keeps people asleep, treats them for waking up, and drugs them asleep again (increasingly effectively as this field of technology sharpens its weapons), helps to drive them crazy. — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
The statesmen of the world who boast and threaten that they have Doomsday weapons are far more dangerous, and far more estranged from 'reality',than many of the people on whom the label 'psychotic' is affixed — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
To live in the past or in the future may be less satisfying than to live in the present, but it can never be… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
We must remember that we are living in an age in which the ground is shifting and the foundations are shaking. I cannot answer… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
Our behavior is a function of our experience. We act according to the way we see things. If our experience is destroyed, our behavior… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
How do we define, how do we describe, how do we explain and/or understand ourselves? What sort of creatures do we take ourselves to… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
In the society of men the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. Our social realities are… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
The schizophrenic may indeed be mad. He is mad. He is not ill. I have been told by people who have been through the… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
What is to be done? We who are still half alive, living in the often fibrillating heartland of a senescent capitalism -- can we… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
From the alienated starting point of our pseudo-sanity, everything is equivocal. Our sanity is not "true" sanity. Their madness is not "true" madness. The… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
