The object of the book is scientific education. It would have been far easier writing pure non-fiction, like many of the books that preceded it. But this would have compromised its style and short-changed the reader. They would have read a dry scientific treatise not a fascinating piece of non-fiction designed to help thousands of lost souls. Every patient described in the book is reflected in appropriate scientific literature in regard to the nature of the new discovery or innovative or pioneering treatment.
Footnotes appear citing the appropriate literature.
Moreover, the more general teachings such as absorption or metabolism of medications have a solid basis in scientific endeavor. Moreover, each and every case described in the book, has a solid basis in reality and no key information has been changed, other than to disguise the patient or exclude out irrelevancies in the case history or allow composites. This has the dual function of emphasizing certain points and also disguising the patient's identities for confidentiality. He assured me that all the cases are composites of real patients that he has personally taken care of. Cry the Beloved Mind has the potential to become a collector's item.