I think large parts of our general culture, aside from any extreme cases, are "abusive" in the sense that they are mindless, full of cruelties, or at the least they do not acknowledge basic human psychological needs. In contrast to the modern "right-thinking" experts I really do think that mental illness is a "psycho-sexual" disorder, much as Freud understood sexual -- in a broad sense. Its origins are not to be found in chemistry.

If you look at our culture, you see tremendous and widespread discomfort with sexuality, repression of thought which gets expressed in very many ways. So it does not take an obvious case of "abuse" to result in emotional disorder, when so much of society is disordered already. The pain of it is evident to me. Perhaps in centuries to come people will look back on this time in astonishment at how much psychological sickness there was in our society, much as we look back on how much ignorance there was of physical illnesses in past times.

Can you deny that wide psychological sickness exists now?