How do you truly understand what it means to be a person, any person, a person struggling with mental illness? The author explores that difficult question in this autobiography of sorts, not only from his perspective as a psychiatrist, but as someone whose mother was afflicted with a long-standing severe mental illness, and as someone with dedicated interest in both the sciences and the humanities.
Early in his career, Dr.
Strauss contributed the multiaxial structure to a diagnostic manua.