"In one way, this collection of short pieces is widely diverse ranging from depression to fads in psychiatry, from sexual intercourse between doctors and patients to the phenomenon of real-life werewolves. Yet, pulling together all these subject is a common thread - the integration of the purely 'scientific' with something less tangible: the complex and unsolvable mysteries of human behaviour and of the universe." ""There is a raft of knowledge afloat in a vast and troubled sea of ignorance and superstition: it is stronger than it was" writes Ellard in the book's introduction." ""Our best hope for progress in any respect is to keep asking questions so that the answers we receive will enable us to ask better questions next time around."" "Throughout the book there is a gentle but relentless dismantling of accepted nostrums. Always clear-sighted and compassionate he makes us re-look at medicine, psychiatry and the human mind itself and urges us to ask our own questions."--BOOK JACKET.

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