The Psychiatrist Must Become A Fellow Traveler

Children Do Not Give Up Their Innate Imagination, Curiosity, Dreaminess Easily. You Have To Love Them To Get Them To Do That.

Attempts To Wake Before Our Time Are Often Punished, Especially By Those Who Love Us Most. Because They, Bless Them, Are Asleep. They Think Anyone Who Wakes Up, Or Who, Still Asleep, Realizes That What Is Taken To Be Real Is A ‘dream’ Is Going Crazy.

A Child Born Today In The United Kingdom Stands A Ten Times Greater Chance Of Being Admitted To A Mental Hospital Than To A University ... This Can Be Taken As An Indication That We Are Driving Our Children Mad More Effectively Than We Are Genuinely Educating Them. Perhaps It Is Our Way Of Educating Them That Is Driving Them Mad.

The Brotherhood Of Man Is Evoked By Particular Men According To Their Circumstances. But It Seldom Extends To All Men. In The Name Of Our Freedom And Our Brotherhood We Are Prepared To Blow Up The Other Half Of Mankind And To Be Blown Up In Our Turn.

In Describing One Way Of Going Mad, I Shall Try To Show That There Is A Comprehensible Transition From The Sane Schizoid Way Of Being-in-the-world To A Psychotic Way Of Being-in-the-world.