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Your book arrived yesterday...I have dipped into many parts of it and am intrigued by the scope and richness of the quotations...a most unorthodox format, to be sure, but I find it makes the text much more accessible than would a more traditional structure... other scholars in the field may give you a good deal of grief about your take on schizophrenia, but if you can find ways to get the book into the hands of lay readers with a personal interest in the topic, it may find a wide audience.

—Talton Ray, Publisher
The Francis Press, Washington, DC

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Thank you for the book you wrote on schizophrenia. I read it cover to cover and am amazed at how much history it contained. You have certainly reinforced your theory with multiple examples and analysis. I enjoyed it very much.

—Diana D. Parnell, M.D.
Northern California

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There may be an editor or an influential person who shares the thought that the field of mental health needs to be stirred up... there is much to be angry about. We still have many thousands of mentally ill wandering the streets much as they did centuries ago. So much has changed with so little real change.

—Vid Beldavs, Authors' Representative
Indiana

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You - sir - are the one whose passion for this work is so evident. How long have you been working on it? Amazing! I am sure there will be many in this field who will welcome and cherish your years of effort to provide this incontrovertible proof.

—Jane Robbins
Northern California

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All those whose attention has been caught by the strange contradictions inherent in sexuality will be delighted to read SCHIZOPHRENIA - THE BEARDED LADY DISEASE. The shock in print that the whole life of men and women, in all social conditions, turns about the junction of the sexes as a pivot is electrifying, and gives insights into personal, unconscious misunderstandings.

I can admit along with Proust that "our social personalities are created by the thoughts of other people." We differ in our powers to feel. The instinctive witness has felt "the keen desire and very urgent need", as Remy de Gormont calls it when discussing the sameness of sex throughout the animal kingdom, which "if unsatisfied produces an inquietude which may increase until a momentary madness takes hold of the animal and throws it blindly upon all sorts of illusions and hallucinations."

J. Michael Mahoney's documentary confirms Dr. Edward J. Kempf's hypothesis, "that in man every case of emotional neurosis or psychosis is the result of more or less conflict and confusion involving bisexual differentiation."

Mr. Mahoney's narrative divulges the rejected wisdom he discovered in his researches by uncovering dusty specimens of the largely neglected and rejected old psychiatry, which provides the cornerstone for understanding mental illness, presented in an album of selected writings and interviews with mental patients, doctors and artists, meshed with the author's insightful, informative commentary. This salubrious book adds to the dignity and significance of each life, and further provides the reader with an excellent bibliography.

Five out of five for this sensational book and many thanks to the author for writng it.

—John H. Perrill
Co-author, The Adventures of Talldorf and Small