Statement of Purpose

The reason I have compiled the 793 quotations included in these studies, all dealing with the subject of mental illness, with special emphasis on the condition termed "schizophrenia," is to prove the hypothesis that (as Dr. Edward J. Kempf so clearly stated in quotation 001 herein), "...in man every case of emotional neurosis or psychosis is the result of more or less conflict and confusion involving bisexual differentiation."

To my knowledge only two investigators have ever unequivocally taken this view, the other being Dr. Maurits Katan, who is quoted later in this work.

The scarcity of investigators who have reached this conclusion is most astounding, considering the enormous amount of evidence supporting it. Why has the scientific community been so stubborn in resisting this hypothesis? Why has this hypothesis been catalogued as just one of many inconclusive theories which attempts to explain madness? These are questions to which there may be no clear answers. It is my feeling, however, that one of the primary causes for this lack of conviction could be the fact that no one has ever gathered, under one cover, sufficient and compelling evidence to prove it. That, basically, is the purpose I had in mind in compiling the following material. I wanted to provide evidence which would be so overwhelming in its sheer volume and impact that even the most stubborn doubter would grudgingly have to admit to the truth of this hypothesis.

Madness has been the instigator of so much suffering and destruction in the world throughout the ages that it is vitally important to uncover its mechanisms, for without doing so we will never be able to eradicate it. I believe that, armed with the knowledge and insights contained within the following material, we will be able to accomplish that task.

— J. Michael Mahoney