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So yes, you CAN untie your Knots. All of ‘em. Not overnight, not in five or ten years, but Eventually. It's not the logic that's flawed. It's the premises. You can make perfectly logical statements from crazy premises. Okay it’s not Wordsworth and there will be those who might argue that it’s not even proper poetry but I don’t care. My Vintage edition catalogues it under ‘Psychology’ and that’s fine by me. Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary OL9300838M Openlibrary_edition Although Laing’s excesses in later life will certainly make an entertaining film the fact is that his role in overturning the established orthodoxy of the day cannot be ignored:

Laing, R.D. (1960) The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness. Harmondsworth: Penguin. For sure, they will throw EVERYTHING at you. But whole cities have fallen to the weakness of a good soul, as they fell like dominoes to little King David. Some facets of our world’s legal framework are grasped only by sophisticates. Be that as it may, when I ended my bitter tenure under much more experienced and cynical arbiters of law than I, I still would not recant.All the bells are ringing here with this post, Jim! A fine profile and commentary, one of your best.

Sally Vincent, a lover, as quoted in "RD Laing: The Abominable Family Man" in The Sunday Times (12 April 2009) urn:lcp:knots00lain:epub:6a20036d-1fe0-472d-b536-8c6c675febc9 Extramarc University of Michigan Foldoutcount 0 Identifier knots00lain Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t4bp0rs1s Isbn 0394432118work was a reaction, tentative at first, against some of the more disturbing psychiatric practises of his day, doubtful and downright dangerous treatments that had been rubber stamped into orthodoxy We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love. I am a specialist, God help me, in events in inner space and time, in experiences called thoughts, images, reveries, dreams, visions, hallucinations, dreams of memories, memories of dreams, memories of visions, dreams of hallucinations, refractions of refractions of refractions of that original Alpha and Omega of experience and reality, that Reality on whose repression, denial, splitting, projection, falsification, and general desecration and profanation our civilisation as much as anything is based. But once we’ve heard that Call - and understand that we’re saved by Hope - we’ll gain the humility to continue. them quiet. In the eyes of the establishment this amounted to the same thing.This was the approach he was to battle against throughout his sometimes wayward, often colourful, Today they will scatter Adam's ashes over the ocean he knew so well. Despite his chaotic life, Adam Laing did have his family's love. Perhaps his father might have judged it a life 'worth living'.

And I had no logical reason offered to me for renouncing my innocent “apostasy.” Might doesn’t always make right. And somehow my faith and hope endured.What about the view of Laing's own family? Does Adrian believe the drunken disintegration of his father had a lasting effect on Laing's children? 'I think the entire family is a paradigm of cause and effect,' he says bluntly. 'With Adam... there's a sense in which... some people, if their father's an alcoholic, will turn into alcoholics themselves. After my father and Jutta sold the family home, that was when he really found himself on his own, at a relatively young age. He wore his heart on his sleeve. He never had children, he had girlfriends and there was never that much time between them. I would have liked to have seen him happy, settled with kids, but he just didn't like being tied down. He liked to feel free.' He trails off. 'It's a pity we didn't get the last episode of that story.'