IS EVERYBODY MAD?
MENTAL EXPERT’S OPINIONS. STRICT SANITY A RARITY. “The, nagging wife, the husband full of unreasonable complaints, and the spendthrift, are none of them sane from a medical point of view. They are all suffering from paranoia.”
Dr. Albert Wilson, the mental specialist who made this statement, is in complete agreement with the views of Sir Robert Armstrong Jones regarding,insanity, ns expressed by him in a murder trial at the Old Bailey.
“Few people,” said Dr. Wilson, “are perfectly sane. If all who were really insane were certificated, there would not be enough people left to take care of them. “The remedy for the prevalence of ill-balanced minds, in my opinion, lies in the application ofeugeuist selection for marriage, and in good bringing up. Large families are also undesirable from the point of view of mental stability.”
Dr. Bernard Hollander, author of “The Insanity of Genius/' “In Search of the Soul,” and many other works dealing with mental disorder, says: —“The medical and the legal point of view differ. Practically every person hits insane ideas, and the only persons certifiable are those who react to such ideas. In other words, will-power is the key to tho problem. “The man who is addicted to drink or to gambling is in the same category as the man with a tendency to murder. If the subject has not sufficient strength of will to roist the temptation, he give,- way to his weakness. “Strict sanity is a rarity. It is it question chiefly of upbringing, as no one is born insane.
“The old saying that genius is akin to insanity is based on fact. The nerves of a genius are so highly strung and sensitive that they may easily become unbalanced, ft is the inventor who fails who most often becomes insane; his sensitive nature cannot stand the disappointment.
“We,are surrounded by insane people; a great many of them know the points on which they arc illbalanced and guard against them. II is the others with whom the asylums are tilled.”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2242, 22 February 1921, Page 4
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339IS EVERYBODY MAD? Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2242, 22 February 1921, Page 4
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