"Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings."
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Ronald David Laing
Ronald David Laing (usually known as R.D. Laing, October 7, 1927 – August 23, 1989) was a Scottish psychiatrist who wrote on mental illness and the experience of psychosis.
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