THE TRUE MADHOUSE DAYS Having lived through the true Madhouse days, I can tell you an amzing story not recorded elsewhere. It is about the snake-pit era of the 1950s when our state hospitals like Manteno were reaching their peak populations. At the time our society swept the mentally ill into institutions thought of as benign and benevolent. But in fact they were not so kind and benevolent. Very few people knew about it at the time. But I knew, because I was there. As an idealistic medical student, intent on helping patients with serious mental illness, I went to live at Manteno for three...

EAT, CHEAT And DROP POUNDS The success of The Smart Dieter's Cheating Guide and suggestions by its readers have inspired me to write a new version, SMART DIETERS DROP POUNDS: The Real World Dieter's Cheating Guide. This revised and enlarged version is even more helpful for us dieters to achieve lasting weight loss. Smart Dieters Drop Pounds is not a zany new diet that works but is impossible to live with for more than a few weeks. Even sensible diets that demand daily calorie counts or special food preparation get swept away by the stresses of day to day life and invariably fail. In sharp...