"I did not like those patients. They made me angry, and I found myself irritated to experience them as they seemed so distant from myself and from all that is human. This is an astonishing intolerance which brands me a poor psychiatrist."
Those exasperated words were written by no less than the father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, on his psychotic patients in a letter to a fellow psychiatrist in 1928.
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