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Louis Wain – British artist [95] Robert Walser – Swiss author, diagnosed with a catatonic schizophrenia [96] Aby Warburg – German art historian and cultural theorist, diagnosed with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder [97] Butch Warren – American jazz double bassist [98] Hannah Weiner – American 'clairvoyant' poet [99]
Louis William Wain (5 August 1860 – 4 July 1939) was an English artist best known for his drawings of anthropomorphised cats and kittens. Wain was born in Clerkenwell, London. In 1881 he sold his first drawing and the following year gave up his teaching position at the West London School of Art to become a full-time illustrator. He married in ...
Wesley Lawrence Willis (May 31, 1963 – August 21, 2003) was an American musician and visual artist. Diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1989, Willis began a career as an underground singer-songwriter in the outsider music tradition.
Mary Edith Barnes (9 February 1923 – 29 June 2001) was an English artist and writer with schizophrenia and became a successful painter. She is particularly known for her documentation of her experience at R. D. Laing's experimental therapeutic community at Kingsley Hall, London.
Bryan Charnley (20 September 1949 – 19 July 1991) [1] was a British artist who had paranoid schizophrenia, [2] [3] and explored its effects in his work. He killed himself in July 1991. He killed himself in July 1991.
Instead of letting her hallucinations take over her life, an 18-year-old with schizophrenia has found an original way to cope. The Los Angeles native, whose name is Kate, draws her hallucinations ...
And while antipsychotics can help schizophrenia’s “positive” symptoms, such as hallucinations, they have a minimal impact on the “negative” symptoms, which are arguably more devastating. People who have schizophrenia can lose the ability to focus, to sustain effort, to carry on a conversation or to maintain eye contact.
B. Parveen Babi; Gladys Pearl Baker; Robert John Bardo; Mary Barnes (artist) Syd Barrett; Herb Baumeister; Donald Beardslee; Benga (musician) Estelle Bennett