Whether one finds this show exhilarating or exasperating is likely to depend on

one's view of Dr. Szasz and his principal theory: that there is no such thing as mental illness. WFB: "There are forms of mental disease that end up with violent denouements, right?" TS: "You are entirely right--except they are not mental disease, they are bad behavior." WFB: "Well, the guy who killed Allard Lowenstein confided to friends during the preceding period that Allard Lowenstein was transmitting signals to him through his wisdom teeth. Now what do you call that?" TS: "I call that a very nasty and powerful metaphor to justify his doing something to Allard Lowenstein."