“Psychiatry and neuropathology are not merely two closely related fields, they are but one field in which only one language is spoken and the same laws rule. Wilhelm Griesinger (1868) I have always been intrigued by the specific moment when, as we sit awaiting in the auditorium, the door to the stage opens and a performer steps into the light, or, to take the other perspective, the moment when a performer who waits in semidarkness sees the same door open, revealing the lights, the stage, and the audience … as I reflect on what I have written, I sense that stepping into the light is also a powerful metaphor for consciousness, for the birth of the knowing mind, for the simple and momentous coming of the self into the world of the mental.”