The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change; until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.

Career
Laing spent a couple of years as a psychiatrist in the British Army (Royal Army Medical Corps; conscripted despite his asthma that made him unfit for combat) where he found an interest in communicating with mentally distressed people. Laing". D.

Laing was associated with the anti-psychiatry movement although he rejected the label. Politically he was regarded as a thinker of the New Left.