After the maids had hatted and gloved the girls, the carriage was summoned and I was carted around one church after another.

The case study presented in “This Is How God Wants It? The Struggle of Sebastian” is a vivid instance of how sociocultural and psychodynamic milieu affects the formation of extraordinary experience, how the core of that experience is better characterized in terms of struggle than of symptoms, and the ultimate unfathomability of schizophrenia as a form of human subjectivity.

For many doctors, meditation resides in the realm of New Age hooey—okay for Indian yogis and students of Eastern religion, but not suitable for scientific study.

Truth and justice are in their very nature mighty and intolerant, and must fight with and conquer falsehood and sin in any region of this many-regioned universe where they may meet.