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…"

"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."

"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."

"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."

"The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice there is little we can do to change until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and …"