Quotes by : R.D. Laing

Sanity today appears to rest very largely on a capacity to adapt to the external world—the interpersonal....

We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when....

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal....

Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.

You don't love me.. Believe me! You don't love anyone. How could you? And no one loves you. How could....

Under the heading of "defense mechanisms,” psychoanalysis describes a number of ways in which a person....

Perfection is something we should all strive for. It's a duty and a joy to perfect one's nature... The....

We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.

If I could turn you on, if I could drive you out of your wretched mind, if I could tell you I would let....

They are playing a game. They are playing at not playing a game. If I show them I see they are, I shall....