RD Lang & Repressive Family Dynamics

In a violent and corrupt society, is the family merely a machine for controlling the individual???? This video talks about research by RD Lang that explores this question. I originally got it from a friend who told me that he got it from this web site:

http://www.newsnet7.com/index.php

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[ReflectedFlicks]

Am I tripping balls, or in the background at 5:07 is that Alan Watts? ? ? ?

[Geoff31858]

I don't know.  Could be.

[DrMontague]

Laing was a genius. Thanks for the post

[ktbalin]

I feel that this is a gross misrepresentation of where Laing was really coming from. It emphasises some things whilst omitting others. Ronnie Laing was above all else a man who had suffered and felt great compassion for the suffering of others. Yes, he was a political animal, but he also comes across as a natural healer who never lost hope. This is not really conveyed in this clip.

[IButtFuckAlienPedos]

I don't have time to get into all the intricate tangents one can go off on in discussing every single point of this video, but 1 thing is obvious to me from experience: I have never seen a marriage yet that has been a happy one. On the surface it may seem so,but when you spend time with a couple or family extreme dysfunctions start showing themselves. It's all about control, yes,& the more narcissistic people become, the more unbending the marriage demands become toward ea. other. Hence: Divorce

[JillAngie3]

@BBCater IMO Saying something 'OUTLANDISH' as you describe is no different to making tins of Spaghetti in animal shapes so that kids eat them or getting a tattoo to be fashionable and 'in'.

Truth is truth and, whether boring or not to the listener, truth has no need for an outlandish remark to get attention because truth will already capture those who are open to it and that is not boring at all. I find Laing's findings extremely interesting.

[JillAngie3]

I agree with Laing.... wise man.

[BBCater]

Laing, while brilliant, became a victim of the very "rules" that he sought to expose. Only, the "rules" that he succumbed to were those of "breakthrough analysis". In other words, you can't be exceptional without being audacious. Objective analysis is boring. Saying something OUTLANDISH - now that makes a mark. An average psychologist can become instantly famous by declaring that the rules of prismic color separation are too restricting on the human consciousness. We need crystal dodecahedrons.

[BBCater]

Humans, animals and fish have BEHAVIORS - both on the personal and collective levels. To even SUGGEST some "dark arena" in the family environment is so over-reaching that it's laughable, as soon as you get over the star-struck impact of "it's Laing".

Every popular psychologist winds up having the epiphone that "GOOD things are really BAD things". Well, what do they propose? That the "nest" is oppressive, while the "wild" is liberation? Apply that logic to a baby bird. The outcome is certain.

[Adominae]

@ReflectedFlicks Yes, it is. :)

[illinformedgeek]

the soul purpose of psychiatry IS social engineering. By the casting out of those deemed undesirable to society by THAT societies rules and definition of illness ( ICD for EU and DSM for US )it cant be seen as anything other than Political and has no consideration or concern for the individual or the health there of. And has, arguably, in fact been more detriMENTAL than beneficial more often than not, and certainly to often to be considered a suitable profession in aid of mental health 

[whiff1962]

T. Szasz's "Anti-psychiatry: quackery squared". If psychiatry has assumed its place as a medical specialty, then, being a "political animal" is not consistent with medical treatment. Psychiatry is informed by the idea that in altering the individual one will alter the social. The latter is an ideology that has come to be embraced in most walks of secular life. The church and state has been supplanted by the therapeutic state; and "mind" has supplanted that of the care and concern of men's souls.

[BFKate]

@ktbalin

Completely agree, Curtis twists Laing's ideas to fit his own theory, very cheap and amateurish.