"Virtually all works on mental illness and psychiatry are about what goes on in the heads of either mental patients or psychiatrists. In the former class fall the tragedies written by former patients, novelists, philosophers, and some mental health professionals about what they—the sufferers or those who sympathize with them—think is going on in the minds of the mentally ill: these are called the inner experiences of the insane and the torments inflicted on them by others. In the later class fall the comedies written by psychiatrists, psychoanalysts, and other professionals about what they—the scientists and therapists eager to understand and help the helpless—think is going on in the minds of mental patients and what ought to be done about it: these are called the scientific theories and therapeutic techniques of psychiatry."