Ronald David Laing

"RD Laing: The Abominable Family Man" in The Sunday Times"

"The Society for Laingian Studies"

"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 chil…"

"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."

"Existential phenomenology attempts to characterize the nature of a person's experience of his world and himself. It is not so much an attempt to describe particular objects of his experience as to set…"

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

"Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the …"

"It is of fundamental importance not to make the positivist mistake of assuming that because a group’s members are in formation this means that they’re necessarily on course."