Name Your Symptom

In a future society obsessed with instant psychological fixes, psychiatrist Henry Infield begins to doubt the very profession that defines him. His colleague Clyde Morgan insists that a doctor must stay detached, but Infield is horrified by the mechanical, intrusive "Cures" his field dispenses—devices like a claustrophobia gyro ball or a mother-voice hearing aid that may suppress symptoms while warping a patient's life. What good is relief, he asks, if it merely numbs fear or dependency without healing the deeper wound? His outrage grows into moral rebellion, and he walks out of the office in anger, only to find the world outside filled with people wearing visible and hidden cures of their own. There, a chance encounter with George Price, a fellow "Cured" man, opens the door to a secret subculture with its own rules, anxieties, and strange social codes. Forced to see his patients as people rather than cases, Infield is drawn into a disturbing, revealing exploration of treatment, identity, and the cost of emotional control. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.