You tell them one real thing and then the doctor thinks he knows you. He starts getting arrogant and overfamiliar, making insulting suggestions left and right. You have to protest constantly just to set the record straight. Finally he makes offensive assumptions and throws them...
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Sarah Schulman
Leave him with his God. I’m sure He’s as hard and unforgiving as Cain is. I don’t want to know about Cain’s God. If he is anything to be guided by, I’d rather be an atheist, thank you.
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Anonymous
What do you think of Cain’s affirmations?”“ He never told a lie. If he says that God talks to him, he is convinced that God is talking to him.”“ Do you believe he is a saint?”“ God only knows, and never better said. He might...
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Anonymous
) “Do you hear his voice as you hear me? Is it a voice outside your head?”“ It’s difficult to explain. It isn’t a voice like anything I’ve ever heard before. It isn’t a man or a woman, it’s God.”“How do you know?”“ Because the...
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Anonymous
A neurotic is the man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. And a psychiatrist is the man who collects the rent.
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Anonymous
More Quotes By R. D. Laing
What we call 'normal' is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection and other forms of destructive action on experience.
When family relations are no longer harmonious we have filial children and devoted parents.
Each time a new baby is born there is a possibility of reprieve. Each child is a new being a potential prophet a new spiritual prince a new spark of light precipitated into the outer darkness.
Schizophrenic behaviour is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.
The psychiatrist must become a fellow traveller with his patient.
