A COSMOPOLITAN LAWYER: JUST SOME READINGS I HAVE ENJOYED LATELY

First, this blog replaces my previous blog, thecosmoplitanlawyerblogspot.com . Second, unlike that earlier blog, the present one is primarily meant as a record of my readings. It is not meant to suggest that others will be or should be interested in what I read. And third, in a sense, it is a public diary of one who is an alien in his own American culture. A person who feels at home just about anywhere, except in his birthplace . . . America.

Wednesday, June 8, 2016

MENTAL HEALTH

Bernhard Schlonl Self's Deception: A Gerhard Self Mystery, translated from the German by Peter Constantine (New York: A Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Original, 2007) ("I spent the following day at the municipal library, reading up on psychiatry. [] I found mental health defined as the ability to play the social game well. Someone is mentally ill when we no longer take him seriously because he does not play along or does not play along well. A chill ran down my spine." Id. at 59-60.).