Judged by his art, Van Gogh was certainly not psychotic in any ordinary sense. Psychotics have characteristic ways of picture-making and Van Gogh’s work has virtually none of them. But--also judging by the art--this man’s head was scarcely in the same place ours is as we go about our ordinary business. Van Gogh was not mad, but he reminds us of the psychiatric dictum, “The mentally ill are just like us, they are just more human.”