Genetics is the intellectual equivalent of the infamous back wards of the mental hospitals of the 1950s. Mental distress at the level of psychosis is terribly frightening. The medical model is an ineffective, and at times panicked, response to inexplicable human suffering. Although drugs such as chlorpromazine and lithium carbonate offered a semblance of relief for sufferers of this appalling mental distress, effective understanding lies in exploring the sequelae of attachment failures in the world of lived human relationships.