It is an autobiography, and more: in part it is a biography for, in telling the story of my life, I must relate the history of another self - a self which was dominant from my twenty-fourth to my twenty-sixth year.
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THIS story is derived from as human a document as ever existed and, because of its uncommon nature, perhaps no one thing contributes so much to its value as its authenticity. THIS BOOK IS WRITTEN BY ONE WHOSE RARE EXPERIENCES IMPEL HIM TO PLEAD FOR THOSE AFFLICTED THOUSANDS LEAST ABLE TO SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES With best wishes for the success of the book and the plan, both of which, I hope, will prove epoch-making, I remain, It reads like fiction, but it is not fiction and this I state emphatically, knowing how prone the uninitiated are to doubt the truthfulness of descriptions of abnormal mental processes. You have handled a difficult theme with great skill, and produced a narrative of absorbing interest to scientist as well as layman. The book ought to go far toward helping along that terribly needed reform, the amelioration of the lot of the insane of our country, for the Auxiliary Society which you propose is feasible (as numerous examples in other fields show), and ought to work important effects on the whole situation. As for contents, it is fit to remain in literature as a classic account "from within" of an insane person's psychology. In style, in temper, in good taste, it is irreproachable. Reading the rest of it only heightens its importance in my eyes. in any way your judgment prompts, whether as preface, advertisement, or anything else. You are welcome to use the letter I wrote to you (on July 1, 1906) after reading the first part of your MS. a week longer as I wish to impart it to a friend. I never heard of so rapid a change in a mental system. The most striking thing in it to my mind is the sudden conversion of you from a delusional subject to a maniacal one - how the whole delusional system disintegrated the moment one pin was drawn out by your proving your brother to be genuine.
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Your report is full of instructiveness for doctors and attendants alike. at - deserves to have his name published. Not only ordinary "tact," but a genius for diplomacy, must have been needed for avoiding rows with you but you certainly were wrongly treated nevertheless and the spiteful Assistant M.D. You were doubtless a pretty intolerable character when the maniacal condition came on and you were bossing the universe. I have long thought that if I were a millionaire, with money to leave for public purposes, I should endow "Insanity" exclusively.
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It is the best written out "case" that I have seen and you no doubt have put your finger on the weak spots of our treatment of the insane, and suggested the right line of remedy. I hope you will finish it and publish it. Having at last "got round" to your MS., I have read it with very great interest and admiration for both its style and its temper.
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That which has already enlisted the support of one of the most eminent psychologists in America is entitled at least to a respectful hearing from laymen. Thanks to Professor William James of Harvard University, I am able to cut off incredulity at its source by quoting his opinion. WHOSE TIMELY GENEROSITY I BELIEVE SAVED MY LIFE,Ī STORY so strange as to challenge belief must needs be presented in a way especially calculated to inspire confidence. A Mind That Found Itself: An Autobiography Creator: