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Originally Posted by kioshk
RD Laing, for a famous psychiatrist, was pretty damn funny himself. He basically thought that crazy people weren't really crazy at all. Which, when you think about, is even crazier than some of Artie Lange's ideas.
Yeah but I don't know any of Artie's ideas. I'll have to look it up to see if he tops one of my faves, RD. Yeah RD went overboard with his ideas but he was seminal on alienation, ontological security/insecurity, what I came to call the "emissary self" standing in with true self sequestered from life. I called it the "Laing Circles" referring to a diagram in "The Divided Self," I used to know the page number.