Loading the dice in favor of madness.

The g oomy biographies l of m nt e al patients most often represent psychiatric artifacts produced through a "loaded" process of sampling only the bleak events of the patients' lives. If a social identity were constructed for any person based on a biased sample of his life events, he could easily be portrayed as a villain or as a man of character, as a criminal or as a men of low and o der, as a s nner or as a saint, and as an insane or as a sane person. In the present r i