Here’s why you should understand what makes a zombie tick. Let’s say there really were an alarming number of zombies wandering down sidewalks and across suburbia. And let’s say this wasn’t a video game, or a movie, or one of the zillion books. Let’s say this was real. And let’s say you’re a psychiatrist. Then your job can’t be to bash in the heads of these walking corpses. This is because, as a psychiatrist, you know very well that these aren’t corpses. They’re sick people and you took an oath. (Look up Hippocrates on Wikipedia — psychiatrists are medical doctors and therefore, like doctors, they take the Hippocratic oath.) You can’t kill them. You have to cure them. They’re suffering and they need your help — even if they try to bite off your nose.
Now we have a true conundrum. Most people seem only to know how to kill a zombie. But you want to rise above all that. You shall attempt to understand how they became zombies in the first place, because the first step towards any cure is an understanding of what causes the sickness in the first place. And, lucky for you, zombies and science go surprisingly well together.
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