SOURCE: "But Is It Art?," in Books and Bookmen, Vol. 23, No. 1, October, 1977, p. 41.

Eysenck is a German psychologist, educator, and author of several books, including Personality and Individual Differences: A Natural Science Approach (1985). In the following negative review of Do You Love Me?, Eysenck charges that the poetry has the characteristics of an "undergraduate joke" and that Laing's "undisciplined verbal ability" has produced "ugly" poetry of "unbearable bathos."

Laing's Autobiography, [Wisdom, Madness and Folly,] which I reviewed in these pages a few months ago, already departed considerably from his usual style of writing; this book [Do You Love Me?] does so even more. The blurb promises much. 'These verses and conversations which go straight to some of our deepest worries, aggressions and puzzles are written in the tradition of the music-hall and cabaret. Reading them is like going to an intimate review. Each scene, each number is complete...