“After Polite Sessions, Letters Filled With Anti-Semitism”. Fascinating case from the NY Times:

It was hardly funny at the time, but my patient gave new meaning to the phrase “insane bigotry.” There was no question that that he suffered from chronic paranoid schizophrenia. He had been seen at our clinic for many years before I was on the staff, and his pathology was voluminously documented. But it seemed that I was the first Jewish psychiatrist to treat him “” and this had fueled a psychotic fire that seemed truly infernal.

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