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R. D. Laing
R. D. Laing
Scottish Psychologist
Born: Oct 7, 1927
Died: Aug 23, 1989
Change Life Live Love Schizophrenia Think
Related authors: Abraham Maslow B. F. Skinner Carl Jung Erich Fromm Jordan Peterson Sigmund Freud Viktor E. Frankl Wayne Dyer
Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world. R. D. Laing
World Insanity Insane Adjustment Rational Perfectly
If I don't know I don't know, I think I know. If I don't know I know, I think I don't know. R. D. Laing
Think Know
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. R. D. Laing
Thoughts Change Think Our Range Shapes Fail Failing Until Because Limited How Little Notice Deeds
True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is. R. D. Laing
People Obligation Guilt Owes Assume Other Ought Oneself True Feel Felt False Being
Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair. R. D. Laing
Schizophrenia Understanding Despair Without Understood Cannot
Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane. R. D. Laing
Creative People Walks Other Someone Mental Risk More Along Greater Territories Climbs Mountain Than Just Explore Lane Help Who Creative People Village
The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation. R. D. Laing
Experience Behavior Schizophrenic Situation Live Strategy Labeled Person Gets Order Special
There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain. R. D. Laing
Life Great Great Deal Pain Only Perhaps Deal Trying Avoid Avoided
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. R. D. Laing
History Change Live See Only Disappearing Up Begin Where Moment Present
Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings. R. D. Laing
Our Alienation Destiny Only Outrageous Human Achieved Human Beings Beings Present Violence
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
Class Culture Matter Nation Society Moral Oneself Takes How Normal Mature Belongs
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. R. D. Laing
Rule Rules Non-Existence Exist Existence Discuss
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 You Imagination Easily Give Up Curiosity Get Children To Love Them Innate
There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia', but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event. R. D. Laing
Political Schizophrenia Fact Condition Label Social Event
Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which turned these terrors to stone. R. D. Laing
Hero Met Carried He Head Him Terrors Freud His Underworld Stone Which Turned Theory Descended Stark

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