When Kurt Vonnegut asked his son for his thoughts on psychotherapy, Mark Vonnegut responded that it gave false hope to anyone who was not biochemically balanced.
The discussion relied on audience input, which ranged from questions about Mark Vonnegut’s Harvard days to audience members’ personal stories about mental illness.
Mark Vonnegut said, after his experiences with mental illness, he most values going into work everyday and saying “How may I help you?.”
—Staff writer Maria S. Pedroza can be reached at mpedroza@fas.harvard.edu.
This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:
CORRECTION: April 9, 2013
An earlier version of the caption of the photo accompanying this article as well as a statement in the story incorrectly stated that author Kurt Vonnegut won the Pulitzer Prize.