A child born today in the United Kingdom stands a ten times greater chance of being admitted to a mental hospital than to a university ... This can be taken as an indication that we are driving our children mad…

Quote by R D Laing

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Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings...

Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings...

Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.

Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.

There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that...

There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that...

From the moment of birth, when the stone-age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby...

From the moment of birth, when the stone-age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby...

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

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

Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.

Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.

The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to...

The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to...

Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.

Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.

Rule A: Don't. Rule A1: Rule A doesn't exist. Rule A2: Do not discuss the...

Rule A: Don't. Rule A1: Rule A doesn't exist. Rule A2: Do not discuss the...

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person...

The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person...

We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we...

We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we...

Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He...

Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He...

We are all in a post-hypnotic trance induced in early infancy.

We are all in a post-hypnotic trance induced in early infancy.

If I don't know I don't know, I think I know. If I don't know...

If I don't know I don't know, I think I know. If I don't know...

Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just...

Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just...

We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation...

We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation...

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

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

True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False...

True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False...

Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love...

Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love...