Publisher's Synopsis
The libraries and bookshelves are full of treatises on sanity. All the books written on psychiatry, psychology, theology, philosophy, social work, and many other topics, deal more or less with sanity in human nature. Even books of law will spell out what is and what is not legal sanity. And we may add to this the innumerable discourses, discussions and displays which one reads and sees in newspapers, the magazines and the television. These all have mushroomed to such an extent that we wonder which came first - the frightening increase in emotional ills, the startling saturation of society with neurotic naivete or the books and the magazine articles and the newspaper spreads and television tripe.... What can be done about it? We only know what we are going to do about it. We are going to forget all about the paranoia the schizoids, the manic depressives, the melancholics and their definitions and their diagnostics; and then we are going to try to set up a few solid guide-lines to help you and to help us to preserve and/or recapture a sufficient degree of solid, down-to-earth sanity which will enable us to live decent, adjusted and productive lives. We will leave technical diagnoses and prognoses to the doctors.
