Quotes About Laing

There is no such condition as schizophrenia, but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event.

The original sense of the word 'therapist' in its Greek form therapuetes , was that of an attendant. A therapist, Laing maintained, should therefore be a specialist in attentiveness and awareness.

Rule A: Don't. Rule A1: Rule A doesn't exist. Rule A2: Do not discuss the existence or non-existence of Rules A, A1 or A2.

In describing one way of going mad, I shall try to show that there is a comprehensible transition from the sane schizoid way of being-in-the-world to a psychotic way of being-in-the-world.

Laing spent his life exposing the destructive identity confusion that results when we become acceptable to others only by denying our own truth. He called this identity confusion mystification.