A practical guide to relatives and interested laymen, which would give the facts about schizophrenia in plain language unmixed with romantic theorising, and offer advice about management, has long been needed. This booklet comes closer to success than anything yet printed. The first section, in which the condition is described, warts and all, but in terms which evoke sympathy and understanding ...

graphical account of a severe mental illness, experienced by a sensitive and gifte. schoolmaster. Looking back now from a position of sad tranquillity, Mr. Stewart ' trying to evaluate all that happened to him, and to find some justification that ^ ease his burden of loneliness and failure. The written word is his means of communic^ tion with himself, as with others, and even at the height of h...