I haven't had to go mad here
- "Middlesex,Eng." Penguin Books 1979
- 219 p.
When someone breaks the social and emotional codes if behaviour he is usually labelled as 'mentally ill,'deprived of his autonomy, stifled with drugs, ECT or psychosurgery, mainly, the author argues, for the benefit of society and the medical profession. The patient, meanwhile, retreats into an immobilizing dependence, from which he many never emerge.