R.D. Laing
British · 1927–1989
Psychiatrist who challenged conventional understandings of madness, arguing that psychosis could be a sane response to an insane world and that the family itself could be a crucible of mental disturbance.
Wikipedia ↗“Insanity — a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.”
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“There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.”
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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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“We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.”
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“The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.”
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“We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.”
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“Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.”
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