Madness Explained by Richard P. Bental

Author:Richard P. Bental
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Medical Science, Non-Fiction, Science, Medical History, Amazon.com, Psychiatry, Retail
ISBN: 9780140275407
Publisher: Penguin Global
Published: 2003-06-04T15:00:00+00:00

It was the second patient who helped me to overcome my now growing therapeutic pessimism. Speaking to Brian1 for the first time as we sat together in a small side room, it suddenly occurred to me that, during my lengthy training, no one had thought it necessary to instruct me in the best way of talking to mad people. I was not sure where to start. I need not have worried. Brian was charming and helpful. No doubt assisted by the many previous occasions on which he had told his story, he described how his problems had developed after he had failed at college, the years of periodic hospital treatment that had followed, and the violent confrontation with his father that had led to his recent admission. With hardly a pause for breath, he then proceeded to talk about his voices. He told me that they appeared to originate from inside his head, but seemed as real to him as my voice. They revealed to him evidence of a Jewish plot to confine Gentiles to concentration camps and, at the same time, tormented him with the simple refrain, ‘Give cancer to the crippled bastard!’

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