Sinclair further discusses Kress's daughter's ill health. He suggests "it must be a case for psychiatry. . . ." He does not recommend psychoanalysis, but goes on at length to describe how "Mrs. [Mary Barker] Eddy was one of the great psychologists. . .an average-minded woman [who] saved my life." Mary Barker Eddy, the founder of Christian Science, a religious group that eschewed medical treatment in favor of spiritual healing, believed that human beings created by God are fundamentally perfect and that disease and disability are little more than the products of delusion.