for a bit um he was for those who don't know he was uh I think the modern word that we would use to describe him as schizophrenic that was not a word that existed in the 1880s but I've talked to a lot of doctors about this and I think it is I would suggest it as an AP it's always hard to diagnose people 100 years later but he had Visions he heard voices people
Body integrity identity disorder has to do with notions of ownership of body parts and tells us something about the bodily self. Schizophrenia tells us something about what's called the sense of agency. I'll come to this in a minute.
But over the course of my career-- 30-plus years, mostly doing research in the neurobiology and psychopharmacology of more severe mental disorders-- schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression-- I became increasingly aware and increasingly frustrated by the fact that millions-- millions-- of people suffer from mental illness, experience their symptoms, and don't avail themselves of treatment for the simple reason that either they are not aware of what it is, because it's not
Misconceptions abound. Everybody's mentally ill a little bit. Schizophrenia is having a split personality, or holding two mutually contradictory opinions at the same time. Mental illness is really kind of freedom of expression and not succumbing to the oppressive conventions of the world.
In conduct disorder there's a general tendency to interpret ambiguity as hostile or reflecting hostile intent. Schizophrenia, autism also associated with a general deficit in the ability to interpret emotions. So it's surprising how ubiquitous biases and deficits in the ability to interpret emotions are across a range of mental health problems.
Russell feared madness all his life and he had for good reason. He had he had he had a schizophrenic son and two schizophrenic grandsons and even Hilbert had a schizophrenic son. Uh as for Fger uh uh he was not in he was not he was not psychotic in any way except that
But what's interesting about that is this has implications for what's called planetary protection, which means we have to look and trace as best we can, is there any molecules that we're for schizophrenia depends more on your ancestry than it does actually on your risk for schizophrenia.
And so how this relates is that when you look at the brain, you find that actually there's a lot of similarities between schizophrenic patients and creative people when you ask them to solve creative tasks. That's where I'm going with this.
But what they're able to do throughout their day is their density distribution of schizophrenia is much less skewed to the one and the other for schizophrenic patients. And that's a new emerging way of thinking about personality that I think is going to have profound implications in the coming years.
So he's basically saying that his leg did not feel like his own. So schizophrenia just tells you that at least your I is not coming from your sense of agency, that there is something still basic
In this way, it's sort of like John Du Pont, who was the character in "Foxcatcher" who also had a similar pattern of bizarre behavior, undiagnosed schizophrenia, and ended up killing this Olympic athlete that he had sponsored. So the book opens with an explanation of how there still is the sort of massive denial.
And in this case, though, it's more about just not letting fear rule you and having control. Paranoid schizophrenics generally feel out of control. Right. They cannot control what's around them.
- A psychiatrist-- I think it was number 11-- said that I was a manic depressive. You are schizophrenic. You might be a multiple personality. Nine psychiatric facilities, including lockdown.
Now, it might matter. And with schizophrenia, you can predict 7% of the liability towards schizophrenia.
The man's body jumped, and he cried out. He was schizophrenic. And these are relapsing illnesses.
I've seen it. I've done it. My brother has schizophrenia.
Psychology deals with something invisible and my area of study was to research and develop mechanism to make invisible things visible. I guess that is a good summary of my job I did research with schizophrenics for a while before I joined Kyonggi University I used the computer to find out how their reactions differ during cognitive test as an attempt to realize personal gaps in more measurable ways When I did research on that topic, I thought it would not contribute that much because there is not much you can get by doing research with schizophrenics as they do not function as well as normal people do
It was just she and I, and we were really, really close. She also had schizophrenia, and she managed that illness until she no longer could. When I was 19, she stopped taking her psychotropic medication.
It's been those two dogs. Because in his extreme schizophrenic state, where he has disordered thoughts and isn't really sure about what he's doing next, what those dogs do is provide him with a very clear path and a very clear plan for his day.
That's like schizophrenic because I'm directing and I'm analyzing it, and then I'm in the scene acting, trying to pretend that it's real and not analyze anything,
a paranoid schizophrenic, which happens sometimes.
So he's basically saying that his leg did not feel like his own. What happens in schizophrenia, unfortunately, is that they might do the same thing.
So he's basically saying that his leg did not feel like his own. And in schizophrenia, it seems like that mechanism of tagging in action as mine has gone wrong.
The mother. Frieda Fromm- Reichmann who was the psychiatrist in the well-known book "I Never Promised You a Rose Garden" coined the term "schizophrenogenic mother," because mothers who engage in some kind of confusing, contradictory, overly critical behavior can induce this. When autism was finally described in 1943 they coined the term "refrigerator mother"
And the change has been extraordinary to the point that now we have effective treatments for most things. maybe not schizophrenia, but certainly depression or bipolar disorder-- and that if I came in
and that's what the average person sees, or they see the 6 o'clock news, and someone's just shut up a room full of people, and guess what? He's probably schizophrenic. So that is the stigma that gets out there, when in fact, there's a tremendous number of people living with it that, in fact, run companies. And my model-- after I got the part, I did a lot of research and there's an incredible woman named Elyn Saks who wrote a book called "The Center Cannot
Or-- Well, I mean, it does vary in degrees, like, for instance, most paranoid schizophrenics-- and I shouldn't use that term-- people living with paranoid schizophrenia don't necessarily hallucinate visually. More common is voices-- sounds, even-- that kind of thing.
The OCD. The OCD-- Yes. someone with paranoid schizophrenia could be really interesting.
it's called clinically schizophrenia whatever.
And studies show that schizophrenics who learn to accept their own intrusive thoughts and hallucinations and delusions, like a craving, that's not real and you don't need to act
So-- people pronounce it both schizotypies, or schizo -tip-ees, is a trait that is related to schizophrenia.
They say it sometimes exists in schizophrenia.
So the story of advertising tells the schizophrenia.
I always describe chimpanzees as schizophrenic.
There are people at risk for schizophrenia that an acid trip was what tripped them off, but a lot of what was--
So people who are near the schizophrenic side can often be extremely creative.
They told my parents that I had schizophrenia.
People have been known to go into schizophrenic episodes on zen retreats.
Maybe it sounds kind of schizophrenic when you talk about it conceptually.
He was clearly suffering from mental illness-- schizophrenia, delusions of grandeur.
And as much as it sounds schizophrenic and multiple personality disorder, I did this.
So he's basically saying that his leg did not feel like his own. So let me just quickly touch on schizophrenia and then we'll go to a Q&A. Now schizophrenia again
So he's basically saying that his leg did not feel like his own. And some neurobiologists have looked at schizophrenia at least in some particular scenarios.
So he's basically saying that his leg did not feel like his own. If you are suffering from schizophrenia, you would lift that bottle.
He was a professor of schizophrenia for the whole of Singapore.
Because by focusing on the schizophrenia, that person is identifying with that disease.
Without people knowing, or even with people knowing. What we all know about paranoid schizophrenia, if we know anything at all, is the guy outside the 7-Eleven is crazy and he's talking to himself, and that's what the average person sees, or they see the 6 o'clock news, and someone's just shut up a room full of people, and guess what?
She's a law professor at USC. But she was full blown schizophrenic in the early 70s, and without her meds, would still be so now. And yet, she teaches students, she writes books, she lectures.
had had a lot of troubles with schizophrenia and things like that.
it's one person who's slightly schizophrenic. Sometimes it's twelve people and they share the various roles. Jeff Bezos, Amazon, big 'V', tells a great story about himself with