Send in the counsellorsWriting in 1787, of the new Humanism, in his Italian Journey, Goethe observed, "I think it is true that Humanism will triumph at last; only I fear that the world will at the same time be a vast hospital, where each will be his fellow man’s humane sick nurse."In A War of Nerves, Ben Shephard, a producer on the television series The World at War and The Nuclear Age, and contributor to collections on imperialism and popular culture, and to histories of psychiatry, h…
