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Starting with his childhood, the book covers Nash's years at Princeton and MIT, his work for the RAND Corporation, his family and his struggle with schizophrenia.. Although Nasar notes that Nash did not consider himself a homosexual, she describes his arrest for indecent exposure and firing from RAND amid the suspicion that he was; at the time, it was considered grounds for revoking one's ...
Challenger Deep is a 2015 young adult novel by Neal Shusterman about a teenager's onset of schizophrenia.The story was based on his own son. [1] It won the 2015 National Book Award for Young People's Literature [2] and was placed on "Best of the Year" lists by Publishers Weekly, the New York Public Library, and the American Library Association.
In June 2012, Saks gave a TED Talk advocating for compassion toward people with mental illness. [11] In Los Angeles, Saks studied high-functioning people with schizophrenia. These people experienced "mild delusions or hallucinatory behavior", including successful technicians, and medical, legal, and business professionals.
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).
Jaynes proposes that consciousness is a learned behavior rooted in language and culture rather than being innate. He distinguishes consciousness from sensory awareness and cognition. Jaynes introduces the concept of the "bicameral mind", a non-conscious mentality prevalent in early humans that relied on auditory hallucinations.
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]
Pages in category "Books about schizophrenia" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. D.
The foreword was written by Kurt Vonnegut, who said, "his [Mark Vonnegut's] wish is to tell people who are going insane something about the shape of the roller coaster they are on." The Eden Express is an autobiographical account of Mark's years immediately after college, his thoughts, experiences and descent into and eventual emergence from ...