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A delicious book for the psychiatrist! It seems that the author, attracted by one or two pieces of literature from the pen of Baron Corvo, was so struck by their unusual character that, thinking he would like to find out something about the man who wrote them, he proceeded to that end, only to be disappointed at the exceeding paucity of the material available. This disappointment only served to whet his curiosity and he Started on the quest for Corvo. In the final analysis he unearthed the long and tedious tragedy of this peculiarly gifted man. It was the story which we psychiatrists are so familiar with, the story of a psychopath, but unusual in that this particular psychopath was highly gifted and, perhaps, still more unusual, had tremendous energy, patience, and industry. He met defeat over and over again, and each time he returned to the conflict filled with paranoid projections; writing, writing, writing manuscripts that but for the industry of his biographer would have been forever lost. It is the old story of the psychopath following, with its inevitable result, the course that ends in his own ruin. The author, although obviously not acquainted with psychiatric literature, has so steeped himself in the details of his hero's life that he has acquired a keen insight into the motivations which animated it, and he ends his story in a way that the psychiatrist will appreciate: “Hail, strange tormented spirit, in whatever hell or heaven has been allotted for your everlasting rest!”
Get the book, O Psychiatrist, and enjoy a delightful story of the tragic life of a psychopath presented in fascinating literary form!
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