This chapter refers to the contributions and writings of RD Laing, a Scottish psychiatrist who questioned the psychiatric practices of his time, in the 60s and 70s of the twentieth century. He was associated with he “antipsychiatry” movement. Laing’s views are very relevant for modern day practice of child and adolescent psychiatry and psychotherapy. Laing’s views are applicable today, as psychiatrists are expected only to apply a “diagnostic category” to a child, and reduce the chid’s life circumstances to a disorder or set of disorders, leading often to the prescription of psychotropic medications. Laing emphasized the origins of psychopathology in family circumstances, transactions and impossible situations. Many children and adolescents exhibit problems precisely because of those difficult influences, which are often overlooked by a hurried child psychiatrist eager to apply “diagnostic criteria’ to a child, and arrives at the certainty of “knowing” what a child’s disorder is. Laing offered an alternative view of the practice of psychiatry and psychotherapy.