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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 disfunction, 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. Often associated with the anti-psychiatry movement, he himself rejected the label as such, as did certain others critical of conventional psychiatry at the time
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- Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.
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- From the moment of birth, when the stone-age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence, called love, as its mother and father have been, and their parents and their parents before them. These forces are mainly concerned with destroying most of its potentialities. This enterprise is on the whole successful.
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- Insanity: a perfectly rational adjustment to the insane world.
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- Perhaps God is not dead; perhaps God is himself mad.
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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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- To live in the past or in the future may be less satisfying than to live in the present, but it can never be as disillusioning.
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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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