In writing the history of a disease, every philosophical hypothesis whatsoever, that has previously occupied the mind of the author, should lie in abeyance.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass.
Disease is, in essence, the result of conflict between soul and mind, and will never be eradicated except by spiritual and mental effort.
The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of diseases.
Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance.
Therefore in medicine we ought to know the causes of sickness and health.
My work is not about my life history. It's not about the story of my neurosis.
Thinking of disease constantly will intensify it. Feel always 'I am healthily in body and mind'.
We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't fit in with our idea of the heroic romantic epic. There is room only for sacrifice, heroism, war, politics and family struggle.
History should be written as philosophy.
Luckily for writers - and unluckily for history - every scientific idea creates human conflict.