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R. D. Laing Quotes: What we call 'normal' is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection and other forms of destructive action on experience.
         

What we call 'normal' is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection and other forms of destructive action on experience.


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This page presents the quote "What we call 'normal' is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection and other forms of destructive action on experience.". Author of this quote is R. D. Laing. This quote is about psychiatry, schizophrenia, mind, normality,.