Dream's end

A chief psychiatrist at a private sanitarium volunteers to undergo a daring experimental procedure that uses him as an empathy surrogate to cure a long-term manic-depressive patient. He frames thought as an energetic electronic pattern that can be damped like a runaway chain reaction and recruits an atomic physicist to convert theory into practice. Colleagues voice ethical and contagion concerns while staff prepare anesthesia and surgical precautions. The plot tracks the technical setup, psychological stakes, and the personal risks as medical ambition, scientific metaphor, and the tension between collective theory and the individuality of minds come into conflict.