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“There is a difference,” he answered: “In the world people cannot always act the way they want to, there are certain inhibitions, whereas the inmates of our mental home suffer from no such inhibitions."
By this time he had managed to arouse my interest and so one day I went along with him. On our way my friend explained to me that many of the cases were far from incurable and that in these cases the main hurdle was an inability on the part of the patient to adjust his thought processes to certain situations. So the chief task of the attending doctors was to help the patient to develop the power of concentration. In spite of this explanation, I could not quite comprehend the activity which I saw in the garden of the home as we walked around. There was a deep well and the patient was busy drawing a bucketful of water from it. At first I took this to be some form of occupational therapy, where the patient was made to do some useful but mentally not very strenuous work such as gardening. But then I noticed something very peculiar. After a great deal of physical effort, the patient would have the bucket pulled right up to the parapet of the well, but by that time the bucket would be empty for the simple reason that there were five neat holes punched in the bottom.
