Editing Dick Price (section)

=== Psychosis ===

In 1956, Price, still in the Air Force, experienced an episode of [[mania|manic]] [[psychosis]] in San Francisco<ref name= wayoutin/>{{rp|142}} which he later described as simply "a state", what he believed was a mental break that was transitory and which he needed to go through and experience rather than repress or manage.<ref name= wayoutin/>{{rp|143}}

On December 7, 1956, his parents involuntarily committed him to the [[Institute of Living]], an exclusive mental treatment facility in [[Connecticut]].<ref name= wayoutin/>{{rp|145}} While hospitalized, he was [[misdiagnosis|misdiagnosed]] with [[schizophrenia]]. He was subjected to physical confinement and [[Chlorpromazine|major tranquilizers]], along with numerous [[electroconvulsive therapy|electroconvulsive]] and [[insulin shock therapy|insulin shock]] treatments. While committed, his mother had his marriage [[annulment|annulled]]<ref name= wayoutin/>{{rp|145}} He was released almost a year later on Thanksgiving Day 1957.<ref name= wayoutin/>{{rp|134}}

Price wrote about his hospitalization experience:

{{blockquote|There was a fundamental mistake being made and that mistake was supposing that the healing process was the disease, rather than the process whereby the disease is healed. The disease, if any, was the state previous to the "psychosis." ... The so-called "psychosis" was an attempt towards spontaneous healing, and it was a movement towards health, not a movement towards disease.... In some categories it would be called mystical, really a re-owning and discovery of parts of myself.<ref name="esalen.org">{{cite web|url=http://www.esalen.org/page/dick-price-interview|title=Dick Price: An Interview - Esalen|publisher=}}</ref>}}

After he was hospitalized, he was discharged from the Air Force, and went to work for his uncle's sign company in Chicago, Price Brothers.<ref name= wayoutin/>{{rp|142}} Price never forgave his parents for their actions.<ref name= wayoutin/>{{rp|146}} Price did not like working for the sign company.<ref name= wayoutin/>{{rp|146}}