Abstract

This paper is a brief investigation of the mathematical laws that undergird psychiatric hospitalizations. I wondered with all the mental illness, whether it is increasing over the centuries or staying the same, but perhaps more diagnosed and hospitalized. The answer is that mental illness is not growing (except for slight increases in suicide). The golden mean parabola, known since the times of the Egyptians and Babylonians, is the function that governs the human mind. It’s what goes on inside the black box.