ABSTRACT
The author Elayne Clift has a deep respect for psychiatry. She needs to be able to trust once clinical skills. She may be hostile, uncommunicative and even abusive. She may be unkempt and smelly. She may be tearful, demanding and uncooperative. She may be arrogant. She may be silent. Look at the author, through all of this, and see a fellow human being that deserves once respect. She remember sitting in my hospital room feeling crushed by despair, pain, and fear, her wonderful nurse nodded and said softly, "she can see that". That simple statement was a lifeline to the author. She could have approached her rationally and pointed out that she was safely seated in a chair, in the hospital in no danger of drowning. If one believes in author value, that belief will be as powerful as any drug one will ever prescribe. There may be no known cure for her physical ills.
