Who's Loony?

All the world is queer but me and thee, dear; and sometimes I think thee is a little queer.

Anon.

One expert who refuses to point is Dr. Gregory Zilboorg, fashionable Manhattan psychiatrist (whose patients have included Millionaire Marshall Field III and

Journalist Ralph Ingersoll). "Present-day psychiatry," he said last week before the New York Academy of Medicine, "does not possess any satisfactory definition of mental illness or neurosis." To illustrate, Dr. Zilboorg told a story:

A psychiatrist was recently asked for a definition of a "welladjusted person" (not even slightly peculiar). The definition: "A person who feels in harmony with himself and who is not in conflict with his environment."

It sounded fine, but up popped a heckler. "Would you then consider an anti-Nazi working in the underground against Hitler a maladjusted person?"

Well, the psychiatrist hemmed, "I withdraw the latter part of my definition."

Dr. Zilboorg withdrew the first half for him. Many persons in "perfect harmony" with themselves, he pointed out, are in "distinctly pathological states."

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