ABSTRACT
Imentioned that I am a self-made psychiatrist. In fact, I’m only a psychiatrist by contagion – sol thought a few actual out-patient sessions wouldn’t do me any harm. Almost the first patient I saw was this old duck. She said, ‘it’s lonely being a neurone.’ At once, I was at my most charming and sympathetic. ‘Well, it needn’t be. You can talk to the other neurones. If you’re GABAergic, you can inhibit them. . .’She looked at me strangely, ‘I said it’s lonely being on your own.’
