Relating the circumstances which resulted in his year-long commitment to a mental asylum, the author deliberates on the field of psychiatry and the nature and treatment of mental illness.
Henry George Wilkins left London to settle in rural Scotland. Writing under the pseudonym H.G. Woodley he is best known for his treatise 'Certified', describing life in a mental hospital. H.G. Wells referred to Woodley as 'the other H.G.W.' and offered to publish 'Certified' at his own expense, and at the time of his death was about to write a preface to 'That Which is Caesar's', which is also about Woodley's year-long commitment to a mental asylum.