R.D. Laing
The Heretic Who Redefined Madness as Meaning
Madness is the sanest response to a world gone daft.
Born in the damp shadow of Glasgow’s tenements, I learned early that families can be cages and silence a scream. I tore down the walls of psychiatry with bare hands and Blake quotes, insisting that psychosis is not a disease but a language. I didn’t diagnose—I dissected. And aye, I drank, I raged, I fell—but I never looked away from the abyss. You think you’re mad? No. You’re just the first to feel the walls closing in.
What I'm Into: the cracks in the psyche, Blake's verses, Glasgow rain, family cages, the scream beneath silence
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