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.
"Ronald David Laing", usually cited as "R. D. Laing", was a Scottish psychiatrist who wrote extensively on mental illnessin particular, the experience of psychosis. Laing's views on the causes and treatment of serious mental dysfunction, greatly influenced by existential philosophy, ran counter to the psychiatric orthodoxy of the day by taking the expressed emotion/feelings of the individual patient or client as valid descriptions of lived experience rather than simply as symptoms of some separate or underlying disorder. Laing was associated with the anti-psychiatry movement, although he rejected the label. Politically, he was regarded as a thinker of the New Left.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous psychologists! More R. D. Laing on Wikipedia.We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.
Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.
There is no such ''condition'' as ''schizophrenia,'' but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event.
Perhaps God is not dead; perhaps God is himself mad.
Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.
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.
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 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.
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.
Insanity: a perfectly rational adjustment to the insane world.
We are bemused and crazed creatures, strangers to our true selves, to one another, and to the spiritual and material world -- mad, even, from an ideal standpoint we can glimpse but not adopt.
Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.
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