R. D. Laing Patient Quotations

From the alienated starting point of our pseudo-sanity, everything is equivocal. Our sanity is not "true" sanity. Their madness is not "true" madness. The madness of our patients is an artifact of the destruction wreaked on them by us, and by them on themselves.

Schizophrenia is the name for a condition that most psychiatrists ascribe to patients they call schizophrenic.

No one has schizophrenia, like having a cold. The patient has not "got" schizophrenia. He is schizophrenic.

The psychiatrist must become a fellow traveler with his patient.