Man as seen as an organism or man as seen as a person discloses different aspects of the human reality to the investigator. Both are quite possible methodologically but one must be alert to the possible occasion for confusion. (...) Seen as an organism, man cannot be anything else but a complex of things, of its, and the processes that ultimately comprise an organism are it-processes.
R. D. LaingAlienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.
R. D. LaingDoctors have throughout time made fortunes on killing their patients with their cures. The difference in psychiatry is that it is the death of the soul.
R. D. LaingThe condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one's mind, is the condition of the normal man.
R. D. Laing