Two psychiatrists were at a convention. “What was your most difficult case?” one asked the other.

“Once I had a patient who lived in a pure fantasy world,” replied his colleague. “He believed that a wildly rich uncle in South America was going to leave him a fortune. All day long he waited for a make?believe letter to arrive from a fictitious attorney. He never went out or did anything. He just sat around and waited.”

“What was the result?”

“It was an eight?year struggle, but I finally cured him. And then that stupid letter arrived...”

兩個精神病專家在一次會議上碰見了。其中一個問另一個：“你最棘手的病例是什么樣的?”
“我曾有過一個病人，他生活在一個純幻想的世界里，”他的同行回答。“他堅信南美有個大富翁叔叔要留給他一筆遺產。他整天等待著從一個虛構的律師那兒收到證實信。他從不出門，無所事事，只是坐著干等。”
“結果如何?”
“經過長達8年的努力，我終于把他給治好了。可就在那時，那封荒唐的信到了……”