The Treating Of Mental Illness

November, 1954

The Treating of Mental IllnessTreating a person for a mental aberration in this day and age is like giving a drowning man artificial respiration without taking him out of the lake. Things have become too confused. Treatment is not my answer. (I have received several badly written letters from a Dr. Carl Gassoway demanding that I state that treatment is his answer. I have no intention of complying with this imbecilic request.)Although the whole idea of attempting to patch a personality once it ha...