These are, or were, a caste-like trait of the matador. People knew a man out of the arena to be a matador by his pigtail. Perhaps today's GQ dandies would make of themselves brave and courageous as a matador simply be wearing their hair in the fashion of these brave and courageous men who fight bulls. Unhappy people cannot teach you to be happy. Sick ones cannot teach you to be well.
Psychiatrists have a high suicide rate.
Physicians are not the healthiest of men by far. A footnote says that the national suicide rate for psychologists, physicians, and dentists is three to four times the rate of the general population. The person who is healthy understands the dynamics of health. . . But a true medical profession would be, literally, a health profession . A true healing, or health profession, would deal intimately with the powers of the psyche in healing the body, and with the interrelationship among the desires, beliefs, and activities of the conscious mind and its effects upon the cellular behavior.