The psychiatrist must become a fellow traveler with his patient. — R. D. Laing Fellow travelers Copy Share Image
Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair. — R. D. Laing Despair Copy Share Image
Schizophrenia is a successful attempt not to adapt to pseudo- social realities. — R. D. Laing Illness Copy Share Image
A mental healer may be a psychiatrist. A psychiatrist may or may not be a mental healer. — R. D. Laing Healer Copy Share Image
I cannot experience your experience. You cannot experience my experience. We are both invisible men. — R. D. Laing Experience Copy Share Image
The truth brings with it a great measure of absolution, always. — R. D. Laing Absolution Copy Share Image
Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings. — R. D. Laing Alienation Copy Share Image
Few books today are forgivable. Black on canvas, silence on the screen, an empty white sheet of paper are perhaps feasible. — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
Here we have the paradox, the potentially tragic paradox, that our relatedness to others is an essential aspect of our being, as… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. — R. D. Laing Absurd Copy Share Image
A man who says that men are machines may be a great scientist. A man who says he is a machine is… — R. D. Laing Body Copy Share Image
What we call "normal" is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection, and other forms of destructive actions on experience...It is… — R. D. Laing Action Copy Share Image
If I hazard a guess as to the most endemic, prevalent anxiety among human beings-including fear of death, abandonment, loneliness-nothing is more… — R. D. Laing Abandonment Copy Share Image
In describing one way of going mad, I shall try to show that there is a comprehensible transition from the sane schizoid… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
We are born into a world where alienation awaits us. We are potentially men, but are in an alienated state, and this… — R. D. Laing Alienation 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… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
From the moment of birth, when the Stone-Age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence… — R. D. Laing Age Copy Share Image
Conventions are convenient. It is inconvenient to say people are dead when they are alive, or alive when they have been buried,… — R. D. Laing Alive Copy Share Image
Man as seen as an organism or man as seen as a person discloses different aspects of the human reality to 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 --… — R. D. Laing Alive Copy Share Image
Our capacity to think, except in the service of what we are dangerously deluded in supposing is our self-interest and in conformity… — 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… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent. — R. D. Laing Death Copy Share Image
Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life. — R. D. Laing Life Copy Share Image
Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. — R. D. Laing Bipolar Copy Share Image
In the society of men the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. — R. D. Laing Men Copy Share Image
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. — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
If I do not know that I do not know, I think I know. If I do not know that I know,… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
When family relations are no longer harmonious, we have filial children and devoted parents. — R. D. Laing Children Copy Share Image
If I don't know I don't know, I think I know. If I don't know I know I know, I think I… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
Where can you scream? It's a serious question: where can you go in society and scream? — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
Insanity is a perfectly natural adjustment to a totally unnatural and negative environment. — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love. — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
What do you do when you don't know what to do? No wonder there are more suicides among psychiatrists than in any… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral,… — R. D. Laing Class Copy Share Image
Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a… — 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… — R. D. Laing Boast Copy Share Image
