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  2. Rufus May - Wikipedia

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    May was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1986 at age 18. May was compulsorily detained in a psychiatric hospital on three occasions. [2] [3] He understands his psychotic experiences as a reaction to experiences of emotional loss and social isolation. [4] Among other beliefs, he developed ideas he was an apprentice spy for the British secret ...

  3. 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.

  4. Hidden Valley Road - Wikipedia

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    "Hidden Valley Road" is a true story about an American family with twelve children, six of whom are diagnosed with schizophrenia. The eldest, Donald Galvin, was born in 1945, and the youngest, Mary (who later changed her name to Lindsay) was born in 1965. By the mid-1970s, six of the ten boys were diagnosed with schizophrenia.

  5. History of schizophrenia - Wikipedia

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    He presented a model where schizophrenia is the attempt of the "self", the attention of the mind, to escape the experiences of the world, the "body". The understanding and connection of others, he argued, is felt as either an attack or "smothering understanding" while simultaneously being longed for.

  6. Schizophrenia In America - The Huffington Post

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    This is one of the main reasons that 40 percent of people with schizophrenia stop taking their medications within 18 months. 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.

  7. Challenger Deep (novel) - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Daniel Paul Schreber - Wikipedia

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    Daniel Paul Schreber (German: [ˈʃʀeːbɐ]; 25 July 1842 – 14 April 1911) was a German judge who was famous for his personal account of his own experience with schizophrenia. Schreber experienced three distinct periods of acute mental illness.

  9. Rosenhan experiment - Wikipedia

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    Their stays ranged from 7 to 52 days, and the average was 19 days. All but one were discharged with a diagnosis of schizophrenia "in remission", which Rosenhan considered as evidence that mental illness is perceived as an irreversible condition creating a lifelong stigma rather than a curable illness.

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