"No? Hm-m-m. Doctor, who is the top man in your field?"
"Eh?"
"Who is the recognized Number One man in handling this sort of thing?"
"Why, that's hard to say. Naturally, there isn't any one leading psychiatrist in the world; we specialize too much. I know what you mean, though. You don't want the best industrial-temperament psychometrician; you want the best all-around man for psychoses nonlesional and situational. That would be Lentz."
"Go on."
"Well — he covers the whole field of environmental adjustment. He's the man who correlated the theory of optimum tonicity with the relaxation technique that Korzybski had developed empirically. He actually worked under Korzybski himself, when he was a young student — it's the only thing he's vain about."
"He did? Then he must be pretty old; Korzybski died in— What year did he die?"
"I started to say that you must know his work in symbology — theory of abstraction and calculus of statement, all that sort of thing — because of its applications to engineering and mathematical physics."
" That Lentz — yes, of course. But I had never thought of him as a psychiatrist."
"No, you wouldn't, in your field. Nevertheless, we are inclined to credit him with having done as much to check and reduce the pandemic neuroses of the Crazy Years as any other man, and more than any man left alive."