ABSTRACT
This chapter was first given as a keynote address at the Division 39 Spring Meeting in Toronto in 2007, held at the Royal York Hotel, a massive stone pile, a dramatic icon of old Toronto. Winter holidays in Toronto, in the late 1950s, entailed coming to the Royal York to attend an endless and enervating series of formal dances in which nice young persons were groomed and prepped for Toronto society or, more accurately, for faux-adult social life. A hyperspeed time of civil rights, antiwar work, the woman's movement, gay liberation. In New York, a group that included many close friends, many of them comrades to this day, formed a group: The Group for a Radical Human Science. In the aftermath of some collapse or impasse, patients describe feelings of uncanny spooky oddness, a feeling of being in the midst of a clanging terrible internal and external battle that simultaneously seems to be taking place in a ghost town.
