R. D. Laing Quotes About Schizophrenic
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No one has schizophrenia, like having a cold. The patient has not "got" schizophrenia. He is schizophrenic.
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The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.
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The schizophrenic may indeed be mad. He is mad. He is not ill. I have been told by people who have been through the mad experience how what was then revealed to them was veritable manna from Heaven. The person's whole life may be changed, but it is difficult not to doubt the validity of such vision. Also, not everyone comes back to us again.
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Schizophrenia is the name for a condition that most psychiatrists ascribe to patients they call schizophrenic.
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