Machine derived contents note: Foreword -- Preface -- Part I - Manic Depression - A Personal Account -- 1. Onset -- 2. Background -- 3. Psychoanalysis -- 4. The hospital -- 5. Treatment -- 6. Recovery -- 7. Aftermath -- 8. Sequel -- 9. Postscript -- Part II - Mental Illness: Its Nature, Origins, and Treatment -- 10. Who's who -- 11. The nature of mental illness -- 12. Diagnosis -- 13. The origins of mental illness -- 14. Freudian theory and practice -- 15. Evaluation of Freud -- 16. The Freudian cult -- 17. The wars between the analysts -- 18. Psychotherapeutic sects -- 19. Group therapy -- 20. The wilder shores of therapy -- 21. Behaviour therapy -- 22. Cognitive therapies -- 23. Psychotherapy assessed -- 24. Manipulating the brain -- 25. The use of drugs -- 26. How drugs work -- 27. What goes wrong -- 28. Therapeutic folly -- 29. Ethics and mental illness -- 30. Choice of treatment -- Notes -- Further Reading -- Index