R.D. LaingThinkers

Change is so speeded up today that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.

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False guilt is related to true guilt in this: true guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself, to actualize oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.

Insanity is a perfectly rational adjustment to the insane world.

Insanity is a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.

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

Madness is not necessarily breakdown. It may also be breakthrough. It is potentially liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.

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

Ontological insecurity is anxiety and danger where there is absence of the assurances derived from an existential position.

Ontological insecurity is the destruction of the unconscious need that things are as they appear and will remain that way . It is a stable mental state derived from a sense of continuity and order in events.

Schizophrenia is a successful attempt not to adapt to pseudo-social realities.

Schizophrenic behaviour is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.