When Ernest Eaton’s desperate wife finally got him to agree to a comprehensive inpatient evaluation, he was 37, was unemployed, and had been essentially nonfunctional for several years. After a week during which he was partying all night and shopping all day, Mrs. Eaton said that she would leave him if he did not check into a psychiatric hospital. The admitting psychiatrist found him to be a fast-talking, jovial, seductive man with no evidence of delusions or hallucinations.
When Ernest Eaton’s desperate wife finally got him to agree to a comprehensive inpatient evaluation, he was 37, was unemployed, and had been essentially…