The Emperor'sNewClothes is a Danish fairy tale written by Hans Christian Andersen and first published in 1837, as part of Eventyr, Fortalte for Born (Fairy Tales, Told for Children).
The emperor then allowed himself to be dressed in the clothes for a procession through town, never admitting that he was too unfit and stupid to see what he was wearing.
At the end, when the emperor's pretension is exposed by a girl who makes some sarcastic comments about his state of undress, Alf's character supplies the ruler some of his usual wares which the emperor finds agreeable.
The Emperor, himself, was even more convinced of the reality of his robes, even though he knew himself to be a fraud (lacking discernment as he did), whatever uneasiness he felt is more than compensated by the high praise the robes received from all those around him.
The story of the Emperor'snewclothes tells us that overweening pomposity and grandeur usually gets its come uppance and sometimes from the most unlikely source, for after all how could a small, odinary child be a threat to the highest authority in the land.
So, Emperor Psychiatry, with the invisibleclothes, (schizophrenia) comes equipped with a new set of scientific arguments which are not only made made to prove it exists, but to contend that the cause and the cure are just around the corner.
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