Abstract
At a time when discussions in connection with mental illness are being removed from the closets of prejudice and taboo, this book is a welcome commentary. It is written in an easy, clear, stimulating style. Technical terms are nicely defined for the benefit of the layman. The source material is indeed unique and unusual, but it portrays the conditions described perfectly. To take autobiographical material of people who were judged insane and weave a story from it is a scientific as well as a literary feat of considerable merit. The purpose of the book is to provide educational material to the millions of people whose families have been touched by mental illness. He not only succeeds in doing this but he also succeeds in underlining the hopefulness that people should and can have in many of these disease entities. This is a book which can be recommended to the medical
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