An excellent small book on mental illness for patients, family, and friends containing a compendium of treatments that work and easy to understand diagnosis on the basis of how it actually feels to be mentally ill.
My first philosophical theater was a maximum security prison. Early in my employment, I spent some time counseling an inmate who had been confined to a solitary cell in the infirmary because he somehow had repeatedly gained access to razor blades with which he would compulsively slash his own arms and legs. Later in my …