R. D. Laing

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Unorthodox British psychiatrist · British · 1927–1989

Unorthodox British psychiatrist (1927–1989)

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“The psychiatrist must become a fellow traveller with his patient.”

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

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

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

“Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.”

“What we call 'normal' is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection and other forms of destructive action on experience.”

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“What we call 'normal' is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection and other forms of destructive action on experience.”
— R. D. Laing
mind normality psychiatry schizophrenia

“Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.”
— R. D. Laing
Love Children Curiosity

“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 not...”
— R. D. Laing
Thoughts Think Fail

“We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be.”
— R. D. Laing
Culture Moral Nation

“When family relations are no longer harmonious we have filial children and devoted parents.”
— R. D. Laing
family ancestry

“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.”
— R. D. Laing
family

“Schizophrenic behaviour is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.”
— R. D. Laing
psychiatry

“The psychiatrist must become a fellow traveller with his patient.”
— R. D. Laing
psychiatry

“When family relations are no longer harmonious we have filial children and devoted parents.”
— R. D. Laing
family ancestry