…Well I thought: well okay you know in a certain way and he said: well I'll tell you what I'll do you and Dr John Perry who is a psychiatrist in San Francisco, can have a dual lecture, and you can lecture on mythology and he'll lecture on…

…well that's a very nice invitation. Then shortly before the time came for me to engage in this adventure, I received from Dr Perry a couple of papers that he'd written on the imagery of schizophrenia, that is to say, these poor people who've lost their…

…fine. But he said I'd like to give a lecture on schizophrenia just the same, and so I'm going to arrange for you and Dr John Perry of San Francisco to give a dual talk the two together, on schizophrenia. Well in my youth I had the great good fortune…

…I had the great good fortune to kiss the blarney stone, which is worth seven phds, and so I thought: okay, why not? Then Dr Perry sent me a copy of a paper that he had written on schizophrenia. It had been published in 1963 in the annals of the…

…that did appear in all. These are Universal Archetypal themes in the mythologies of mankind, and from this paper of Dr Perry I discover that they are produced spontaneously from the broken off condition of a complete schizophrenia, complete psychosis a…

…go he has tipped over but help him through. Well while I was out there I had some very exciting for me conversations with Dr Perry and our dual statement. The talk we gave together was for me a very great experience and it started me thinking more and…

…or less scholarly, academic, personally enthusiastic way but without any sense of its possible import for people in trouble today. Then Dr Perry and Mr Murphy gave me a paper by Dr Julian Silverman which had appeared in the American Anthropologist in 1967…

…One seeks center and there comes the sense of having found the center, of having been the center and being the center. Dr Perry told me of one case a schizophrenic who was absolutely cut off. Nobody could communicate with him at all and this poor…

…the zeal of the individual is dissociated from the society there takes place a sort of pathology of the symbol. Now Dr John Perry whom I mentioned last week in connection with the schizophrenia, uses a term: affect image. This is exactly the counterpart…