Volume 21, Number 9 · May 30, 1974
Inside the Fortress
By Elsa First
A Home for the Heart
by Bruno Bettelheim
Knopf, 461 pp., $12.50
In private mental hospitals in Japan—so Bruno Bettelheim tells us—each patient is provided with a special female attendant, called a tsukisoi, who remains with the patient at all times, caring for his needs by day and sleeping beside him at night. The idea is arresting in its simplicity; it plunges us at once into the imaginative effort required to think about the question of how sane people can go about restoring mad people to their common humanity.
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