"Physical disease is treatable and curable; some mad people are also curable, chiefly by drugs, and if nobody seems to know how they work, who cares? But the poor old neurotic might just as well spend his money on booze and sex magazines. The only certain cure for arachnophobia is to spend twenty-four hours a day in a spacesuit, with a qualified person standing by holding a flame-thrower and a half-litre tranquilliser injection, just to be on the safe side."
—Kingsley Amis, "Shrinks," Memoirs
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