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R. D. Laing

(7 Oct 1927 - 23 Aug 1989)

British psychiatrist.

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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.

— R. D. Laing

Politics of Experience (1967), 110.

See also: | Death (95) | Madness (3)

The experience and behaviour that gets labelled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.

— R. D. Laing

Politics of Experience (1967), 95.

See also: | Behaviour (11) | Experience (59) | Life (169)

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