We are provided with two seemingly opposite ways of professional treatment in the novel. First Septimus is treated by Dr.Holmes who writes his condition to lack of outside distractions. He downplays his state by asking “in a funk again?” and recommends him to play golf and eat porridge. Then Rezia takes Septimus to a respected and knowledgeable Dr. Bradshaw, who in contrast to Holmes diagnoses Septimus very quickly and labels him on his pink card. His treatment consists of of gaining weight and isolation. We were left with a feeling of hopelessness, both options seem detached and insensitive to real human needs. What everyone seems to be concerned with is just fixing ones behavior, to get one into forcefully to a state of normalcy. In the