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     Dear friend: As you are interested enough in orthmolecular psychiatry to have requested our information, I would like to take this opportunity to tell you about the work of the Huxley Institute for Biosocial Research, and its division, the American Schizophrenic Association.

     The may well be a statement you've heard before, but because it still applies to millions of Americans, I think it bears repeating: one of the greatest American tragedies is the neglect much of the medical world continues to exhibit towards suffering from schizophrenic and other biochemical related mental disorders, especially those patients who are poor, and thus unable to afford often exorbitant physician's fees. At the Huxley Institute-American Schizophrenia Association, we have been trying a way to bring effective and low cost treatment to these people who will otherwise waste away in the barred rooms of institutions, or spend their entire lives suffering in an agony they don't understand and can't escape from because no one can find the time or the resources to help them.

     With the assistance of people like yourself, we believe that we can help them. Orthomolecular psychiatry, a treatment that costs substantially less than the thousands upon thousands upon thousands of dollars on psychotherapy and other related "classical" treatments, has already cured, or greatly aided in the recovery of over 30,000 patients who were previously given up as "hopeless" cases, not worthy of any further effort on the part of a physician or psychiatrist. Yet the benefits of this therapy are often questioned by those who refuse to admit the possibility that, in the decades "accepted" treatment techniques have been in use, they have failed, for the most part, to afford even minimal relief to those who have been crippled for years with the many forms of mental disease.

     Because of the difficulties we encounter in trying to explain to the public and the medical profession the importance of adopting orthomolecular therapy as a valid and necessary addition to the treatment of schizophrenia and related illnesses, the Institute and ASA have been, quite literally, struggling to stay alive. Still, we have more than 3,000 members all across the country, and over 9,000 loyal contributors, many of whom can't afford to send us their money, but do anyway, because they know from experience, and often from personal involvement, how important it is that the work of the Huxley Institute and the American Schizophrenic Association continue. Despite our financial limitations, we continue our programs of public and professional education, along with constant patient assistance and referrals by mail and telephone to patients and families in every part of the nation. To keep these services available, more people must join with us in believing that the mentally ill can be, indeed must be rescued from the prison their illness makes of their lives.

     For this reason, we are asking you to support our effort to help schizophrenics and others suffering from mental disorders by becoming a member of our organization. For your membership fee you will receive a copy of a ten page newsletter I will edit, which will contain the most recent developments in the mental health field, along with several brochures a year, written by leading physicians and private citizens concerned with mental illness which will detail new theories and discoveries in mental health and related areas. In addition, Participating Members, Sustaining Members, and Life Members will receive the Journal of Orthomolecular Psychiatry, a professional periodical written by and for orthomolecular physicians.

     Medicine has rarely advanced by refusing to admit that great illness did not exist, or by being unwilling to adopt new treatments and techniques. Together, we must be the voice for those who are voiceless and unchampioned; it is for them that we must fight to change disinterest to concern. Please join us in our quest to rescue those who for so long have suffered in the darkness alone.