ABSTRACT
Of the many strands of a main thread from all these papers that called out for further attention, I am selecting only those that seem to me to be crucial for my current clinical work with my last few patients. There were two of the patients who particularly reminded me of those described in my comments on Masud Khan’s paper (see Chapter 19). They forced me to think more about the question of ‘the suppressed madness of sane men’ for both were ‘sane’ in their professional work but not in the emotional satisfactions of their private lives and both in different degrees showed, under analysis, that they were, to use Winnicott’s phrase, suffering from ‘a flight into sanity’.1
