The very error of the moon
"The author, a Scot from Aberdeen, is a consultant psychiatrist, After initial training at Kingseat Mental Hospital, Aberdeen, he received an appointment from the New Zealand government, and for over twenty years was Director General of Mental Hospitals in the Dominion. The book is essentially a plea for dissapation of the ignorance which prevails regarding mental hospitals, and the conduct and sensibilities of the patients therein. Whatever view the reader may have previously entertained, he will learn from this book that patients are not only "fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same summer and winter" as others but that they appreciate in the same degree justice, kindness, and courtesy, and resent, as we would, anything in speech or conduct which implies that they are held in less esteem than those who have been more fortunate." -- Inside front cover
Print Book, English, [1959]
Stockwell, Ilfracombe [England], [1959]