Dr. Kubie was moved to answer the many articles written by Thomas Szasz because he believed that Szasz had developed fallacies in the extreme positions he gradually assumed over the years. Szasz's calling mental illness a 'myth' only provides fuel for all the human beings who are so terrified of mental illness that they want to deny its existence. Kubie emphasizes that although our system of classification of psychological disturbances is faulty, psychological illness nevertheless exists. A process of illness is produced whenever a pattern of behavior is frozen so that its automatic repetition precludes change. Kubie denies that hospitalization of patients should be regarded as punishment (as Szasz regards it); removing some patients from the scene of conflict and pain may have enormous positive advantages, especially in making him more accessible to treatment. Kubie doubts whether the adversary system in our courts is able to ascertain the truth about