![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The patient to whom this psychiatric report refers is me. In her view she lives in a world of people moved by strange, conflicted, poorly comprehended, and, above all, devious motivations which commit them inevitably to conflict and failure. It is as though she feels deeply that all human effort is foredoomed to failure, a conviction which seems to push her further into a dependent, passive withdrawal. The voice was warbling about an unnamed patient experiencing a mental break: A monologue emerged from what sounded like a tape recorder. When I rang the bell, the door opened, and I was ushered through a series of winding passages and deposited by the front row of the theater. I was told to wait outside a dinged-up stage door on Ashland Place, in Brooklyn. ![]()
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