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Review title: pernicious nonsense
Product review: I was given this by a very clever (he is now a professor of physics at a major university) friend many years ago, when we were both graduate students. I just took it off the shelf out of curiosity, and now I find myself wondering how people can take such books seriously. The first sentence reads:'Experience has taught us that we have only one enduring weapon in our struggle against mental illness: the emotional discovery and emotional acceptance of the truth in the individual and unique history of our childhood.'Experience has taught us nothing of the sort. This is pernicious nonsense masquerading as a declarative sentence.This sort of stuff should stay in student flats, where it can do no damage, other than to the critical faculties of cosseted and credulous middle-class children. It should not be allowed into the larger world, where it can hurt people.
