True guilt is guilt at the obligation one owes to oneself to be oneself. False guilt is guilt felt at not being what other people feel one ought to be or assume that one is.

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.