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R. D. Laing Quotes


A Scottish psychiatrist who wrote extensively on mental illness – in particular, the experience of psychosis.
Ronald David Laing (7 October 1927 – 23 August 1989), was a Scottish psychiatrist who wrote extensively on mental illness – in particular, the experience of psychosis. Laing's views on the causes and treatment of serious mental dysfunction, greatly influenced by existential philosophy, ran counter to the psychiatric orthodoxy of the day by taking the expressed feelings of the individual patient or client as valid descriptions of lived experience rather than simply as symptoms of some separate or underlying disorder. Laing was associated with the anti-psychiatry movement although he rejected the label.

Here are some famous quotes by R. D. Laing.

The psychiatrist must become a fellow traveller with his patient.

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Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.

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When family relations are no longer harmonious we have filial children and devoted parents.

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Schizophrenic behaviour is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.

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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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Each time a new baby is born there is a possibility of reprieve. Each child is a new being a potential prophet a new spiritual prince a new spark of light precipitated into the outer darkness.