Psychiatrist born in
Glasgow,
Scotland in
1927. In
1960 his first work
The Divided Self suggested that being "
crazy" was a perfectly appropriate response to an
insane environment
pretending to be "
normal". Smearing your
shit on the
asylum walls, for example.
"I must play their game, of not seeing I see the game."
Laing's other famous books include Sanity, Madness and the Family (1964) and The Politics of Experience (1967).