Abraham Nussbaum

Physician, Teacher, Writer


The Eden Express, Mark Vonnegut

Paperback in the back pocket of my jorts for the last week? This reminder that the counterculture cracked-up slowly, then all at once. Lot of talk these days that psychiatry neglects meaning. Here’s a little account of the problems of a multiplicity of meanings: “One thing that makes me suspicious is that everyone seems to have a different idea about what sort of mistake it was I made. Maharishi probably thinks my mistake was not doing my meditation faithfully. Lots of the nurses and orderlies seem to think my beard and my long hair were my real mistake. The other day they helped me out with that by holding me down and cutting it all off….”