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  2. The Manic Monologues - Wikipedia

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    Burton and Hofmeister wrote the play in the wake of Burton's 2017 bipolar diagnosis while a doctoral student at Stanford University, drawing inspiration from The Vagina Monologues and incorporating approximately 20 true stories of mental illness provided by individuals across the U.S., Canada, and beyond.

  3. Schizophrenia - Wikipedia

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    In the mid- to late 1960s, black men were categorized as "hostile and aggressive" and diagnosed as schizophrenic at much higher rates, their civil rights and Black Power activism labeled as delusions. [268] [269] In the early 1970s in the United States, the diagnostic model for schizophrenia was broad and clinically based using DSM II.

  4. The Collected Schizophrenias - Wikipedia

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    Wang is the author of the 2013 novel The Border of Paradise, [3] a multi-generational family story of immigrants dealing with mental illness. Talking to The Paris Review, she spoke about using her experience with mental illness in her fiction: "I wrote The Border of Paradise with the intent of writing about psychosis, hallucinations, et cetera, in a very visceral way that I hadn’t seen before."

  5. Evolutionary approaches to schizophrenia - Wikipedia

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    Symptoms of schizophrenia such as delusions are extreme versions of cognitive processes that can be greatly beneficial. Such symptoms that are at the undesirable extreme of normality, however, result in more harm than benefit. Timothy Crow hypothesizes that schizophrenia is closely related to human language development. [7]

  6. History of schizophrenia - Wikipedia

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    Harry Stack Sullivan applied the approaches of Interpersonal psychotherapy to treating schizophrenia in the 1920s viewing early schizophrenia as a problem-solving attempt to integrate life experiences, arguing that recovered patients were made more competent after a psychotic experience than before. [43]: 76

  7. Schizotypy - Wikipedia

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    The quasi-dimensional model may be traced back to Bleuler [2] (the inventor of the term 'schizophrenia'), who commented on two types of continuity between normality and psychosis: that between the schizophrenic and their relatives, and that between the patient's premorbid and post-morbid personalities (i.e. their personality before and after ...

  8. Hidden Valley Road - Wikipedia

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    Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family is a 2020 non-fiction book by Robert Kolker.The book is an account of the Galvin family of Colorado Springs, Colorado, a mid 20th-century American family with twelve children (ten boys and two girls), six of whom were diagnosed with schizophrenia (notably all boys).

  9. Montreal experiments - Wikipedia

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    The Montreal experiments were a series of experiments, initially aimed to treat schizophrenia [1] by changing memories and erasing the patients' thoughts using the Scottish psychiatrist Donald Ewen Cameron's method of "psychic driving", [2] as well as drug-induced sleep, intensive electroconvulsive therapy, sensory deprivation and Thorazine.

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