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    A clinical Psychiatrist who made some very daring assertions about [[schizophrenia]].
    amazing dude
    He wrote a book (among a few) that is called: 'Knots'. They are a collection of brilliant [[poems]]/[[mind-games]]/short-circuiting logic exercises. Below are a few excerpts from
    'Knots' ([http://www.oikos.org/nodihome.htm Italian Version])
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    ===They are playing a game===
    '''They are playing a game. They are playing at not playing a game.'''
    '''If I show them I see they are, I shall break the rules and they will punish me.'''
    '''I must play their game, of not seeing I see the game.'''
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    more on this later
    ===There is something I don't know===

    '''There is something I don't know'''
    (add some poems by him)
    '''that I am supposed to know.'''
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    '''I don't know what it is I don't know,'''
    '''They are playing a game. They are playing at not playing a game.''' <br>
    '''and yet I am supposed to know...'''
    '''If I show them I see they are, I shall break the rules and they will punish me.'''<br>
    </center>
    '''I must play their game, of not seeing I see the game.'''
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    ===There must be something the matter with him===
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    <pre>
    There must be something the matter with him
    There must be something the matter with him
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    the matter with him
    the matter with him
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    '''There is something I don't know'''<bR>
    '''that I am supposed to know.'''<Br>
    '''I don't know what it is I don't know,'''<Br>
    '''and yet I am supposed to know...'''<br>
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    A son should respect his father<br>
    [http://www.mat.upm.es/~jcm/laing--outside.html Outside] Poem
    he should not have to be taught to respect his father<br>
    It is something that is natural<br>
    That’s how I’ve brought up my son anyway.<br>

    Of course a father must be worthy of respect<br>
    He can’t forfeit a son’s respect<br>
    But I hope at least my son will respct me, if<br>
    only for leaving him free to respect me or not.<br>
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    The [http://www.mat.upm.es/~jcm/laing--outside.html Outside] Poem
    +
    other poems from [http://www.oikos.org/knotpageen.htm 'Knots']


    [[Category:Psychology]]
    [[Category:Psychology]]
    [[Category:People]]
    [[Category:People]]
    [[Category:Paradigm Shift]]

    Latest revision as of 04:16, 2 November 2005

    A clinical Psychiatrist who made some very daring assertions about schizophrenia. He wrote a book (among a few) that is called: 'Knots'. They are a collection of brilliant poems/mind-games/short-circuiting logic exercises. Below are a few excerpts from 'Knots' (Italian Version)


    They are playing a game[edit]

    They are playing a game. They are playing at not playing a game.  
    If I show them I see they are, I shall break the rules and they will punish me.
    I must play their game, of not seeing I see the game.
    

    There is something I don't know[edit]

    There is something I don't know
    that I am supposed to know.
    I don't know what it is I don't know,
    and yet I am supposed to know...
    

    There must be something the matter with him[edit]

    There must be something the matter with him
            because he would not be acting as he does
                    unless there was
            therefore he is acting as he is
            because there is something the matter with him
    
    He does not think there is anything the matter with him
    because
            one of the things that is
            the matter with him
            is that he does not think that there is anything
            the matter with him
    therefore
            we have to help him realize that,
            the fact that he does not think there is anything
            the matter with him
            is one of the things that is
            the matter with him
    

    If I don't know I don't know
                                I think I know
    If I don't know I know
                          I think I don't know
    

    A son should respect his father
    he should not have to be taught to respect his father
    It is something that is natural
    That’s how I’ve brought up my son anyway.

    Of course a father must be worthy of respect
    He can’t forfeit a son’s respect
    But I hope at least my son will respct me, if
    only for leaving him free to respect me or not.


    The Outside Poem + other poems from 'Knots'

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