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A Man Against Insanity by Paul de Kruif
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“Wasn't this rugged business of taking your life apart, looking at all of it and admitting and remembering and reminding yourself of all the bad - wasn't the big result of it your getting to be honest?

"Exactly that," said Ferguson.”
― Paul de Kruif, A Man Against Insanity: The Birth of Drug Therapy in a Northern Michigan Asylum

tags: honesty, moral-inventory, self-examination, therapy

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“Jack asked himself: Would he have wanted to live out his life as a placid, contented, lobotomized Ferdinand the Bull? No. Then, what right did he have to inflict such a fate on anybody?”
― Paul de Kruif, A Man Against Insanity: The Birth of Drug Therapy in a Northern Michigan Asylum

tags: medical-ethics, mental-health, psychopharmacology

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