Authors:
  1. Quotes
  2. Authors
  3. R
  4. R. D. Laing
  5. Insanity

R. D. Laing Quotes about Insanity

All R. D. Laing Quotes Bipolar Children Confusion Depression Diversity Giving Insanity quotes Life Love Lying Madness Reality Sanity Schizophrenia Today Violence
Insanity is a perfectly natural adjustment to a totally unnatural and negative environment.

Insanity is a perfectly natural adjustment to a totally unnatural and negative environment.

R. D. Laing
Insanity, Independence, Negative

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

R. D. Laing
Insane World, Break Through, Insanity
'The Politics of Experience' (1967) ch. 6

I am quite sure that a good number of "cures" of psychotics consist in the fact that the patient has decided, for one reason or other, once more to play at being sane.

R. D. Laing
Play, Numbers, Insanity

In describing one way of going mad, I shall try to show that there is a comprehensible transition from the sane schizoid way of being-in-the-world to a psychotic way of being-in-the-world.

R. D. Laing
Mad, Insanity, Trying
"The Divided Self". Book by R. D. Laing, Ch. 1, 1960.

You May Also Like: