«We believe, unlike most of our colleagues – and many laymen – that so-called psychiatric patients are, like us, people in every respect. They may, like any of us, be judged eccentric, worried, troublesome, honest or dishonest. And in many other ways that are part of the human condition. There is no mysterious “mental illness” that mysteriously turns the so-called patient into something less than a man, in need of the supposedly human intervention of the psychiatrist to restore his humanity. On the contrary, “it” is something that the so-called patient (and with him other people in his social environment) must fight hard against. His success in the fight will depend partly on him and partly on us, on how we encourage or discourage him, allow or prevent him from acting.»