The Cardboard Giants

This is a record of the experiences in a mental hospital of a patient suffering (apparently) from paranoid schizophrenia. As it is stated on the cover that the patient has recovered from his illness and that he has written the book under his own name, it is very difficult to make any comment from the clinical point of view without running the risk of doing harm. He himself has recorded and discussed his symptoms with considerable frankness but this does not absolve the physician from the duty of confining the expression of his opinions on the case to the patient himself or to his