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“We are not able even to think adequately about the behaviour that is at the annihilation edge. But what we think is less than what we know: what we know is less than what we love: what we love is so much less than what there is. And to that precise extent we are so much less than what we are.”
― R.D. Laing

“Behaviour therapy is the most extreme example of such schizoid theory and practice that proposes to think and act purely in terms of the other, without reference to the self of the therapist or the patient, in terms of behaviour without experience, in terms of objects rather than persons. It is inevitably therefore a technique of non-meeting, of manipulation and control.

Psychotherapy must remain an obstinate attempt of two people to recover the wholeness of being human through the relationship between them.”
― R.D. Laing A. Esterson, The Politics of Experience by R. D. Laing

“Let us call schizophrenia a successful attempt not to adapt to pseudo social realities. s ths also an objective fact? Schizophrenia is a failure of ego functioning. Is this a neutralist definition? But what is, or who s, the 'ego'? In order to get back to what the ego is, to what actual reality it most nearly relates to, we have to desegregate it, de-depersonalize it, de-extrapolate, de-abstract, de-objectify, de-reify, and we get back to you and me, to our particular idioms or styles of relating to each other in social context. The ego is by definition an instrument of adaptation, so we are back to all the questions this apparent neutralism is begging. Schizophrenia is a successful avoidance of ego-type adaptation? Schizophrenia is a label affixed by some people to others in situations where an interpersonal disjunction of a particular kind s occurring. This is the nearest one can get at the moment to something like an 'objective' statement, so called.”
― R. D. Laing, THE POLITICS OF EXPERIENCE