On Psychiatry

This is something that is absolutely within the realm of reality, not just possibility. For it rests on the fact that man A, apart from the complex of weakness which is designated as the cause of his mental illness, has a weak constitution and cannot bear this complex of weakness. The other, B, who also has the complex of weakness within him, perhaps even more strongly, has, apart from this complex of weakness, a considerably stronger constitution than the other; it does not harm him. B can bear it, A cannot. A would not have contracted the disease at all if he had not been constantly psychically influenced by the influence of man B, who lives next to him and who, in this case, can be extraordinarily considerable because B is more robust than A.