<p>M. Foucault, in Madness and Civilization (New York: Mentor Books, 1967), a brilliant essay on the history of madness in the western world characterizes the organization of mental asylums: »The entire existence of madness, in the world now being prepared for it, was enveloped in what we may call, in anticipation, a 'parental complex.' The prestige of patriarchy is revived around madness. . . . henceforth . . . the discourse of unreason will be linked with ... the dialectic of the Family. ...

<p>Either actively and voluntarily or when they are involuntarily psychiatrically hospitalized.</p>

<p>D. L. Phillips and B. E. Segal, »Sexual Status and Psychiatric Symptoms« American Sociological Review (1969): vol. 34.</p>

<p>Konrad Lorenz, a noted student of animal behavior, has recently been quoted as saying that »there's only one kind of people at a social disadvantage nowadays - a whole class of people who are treated as slaves and who are exploited shamelessly - and that's the young wives. They are educated as well as the men. And the moment they give birth to a baby, they are slaves. They have a 22-hour working day and no holidays and they can't even be ill«. New York Times interview, July 5, 1970.</p>

<p>Frederick Engels, The Origins of Family, Private Property, and the State (New York: International Publishers, 1942).</p>

<p>Ibid. My italics. 21* The Myth of Mental Illiness, Thomas S. Szasz, excerpts from pp. 213, 194-195, 263-264. Copyright © 1961 by Hoeber Medical Division of Harper &amp; Row, Publishers, Inc. Reprinted by permission of the publishers.</p>

<p>T. T. Szasz, The Myth of Mental Illness (New York: Harper &amp; Row, 1961). *The Myth of Mental Illness, Thomas S. Szasz, excerpts from pp. 213, 194-195, 263-264. Copyright © 1961 by Hoeber Medical Division of Harper &amp; Row, Publishers, Inc. Reprinted by permission of the publishers</p>

<p>A government pamphlet entitled Suicide among Youth (1970) notes that attempted suicide is far more frequent among girls in the student age bracket than among boys. The boys attempt fewer suicides but complete more than the girls. Nonwhite males between fifteen and twenty-five have the highest successful suicide rate.

<p>Zigler and Phillips, op. cit.</p>

<p>Leslie Phillips, »A Social View of Psychopathology« in P. London and D. Rosenhan, eds., Abnormal Psychology (New York: Holt, Rinehart &amp; Winston, 1969).</p>