Reply #1: Have him read Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy.

[davsand]

It is a wonderful novel that takes quite a look at what passes for mental "health" in our world and in a future set utopia where people live much closer to the earth and much closer to emotions.

""Our madhouses are places where people retreat when they want to go down into themselves -- to collapse, carry on, see visions, hear voices of prophecy, bang on the walls, relive infancy -- getting in touch with the buried self and the inner mind. We all lose parts of ourselves. We all make choices that go bad....... How can another person decide that it is time for me to disintegrate, to reintegrate myself?" (p.60) "



Read a review here:
http://www.futures.hawaii.edu/j2/rosenthal.html

I highly recommend this book.


Laura