A man who has psychological problems is a conscious being; his cognitive
faculty is hampered, burdened, slowed down, but not destroyed. A neurotic is
not a psychotic. Only a psychotic is presumed to suffer from a total break with
reality and to have no control over his actions or the operations of his
consciousness (and even this is not always true). A neurotic retains the
ability to perceive reality, and to control his consciousness and his actions
(this control is merely more difficult for him than for a healthy person). So
long as he is not psychotic, this is the control that a man cannot lose and
must not abdicate.