They are working, or they are graduating and getting ready to work. I know of 17 young men and women who became schizophrenic in their teens, were treated properly, recovered, went to college, became doctors and psychiatrists and are practising. A few years ago the father of one of them, a physician, was concerned about his son. His son had been offered an appointment as Chair of a large department in a medical school. His father wanted to know if I thought it might be too stressful for him.
Patients pay income tax because they are well enough to work.
I challenge orthodox psychiatric to show me any cohort of patients who have been treated with tranquilizers alone of whom even ten percent are gainfully employed in responsible jobs. Psychiatry should be allowed to practice only if it is prepared to use the most advanced treatments, and can show that it can do a better job than could other physicians. A. Hoffer, MD, Ph.