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The causes of schizophrenia are unclear, but it seems that genetics play a heavy role, as individuals with a family history are far more likely to suffer from schizophrenia. [11] [12] The disorder can be triggered and exacerbated by social and environmental factors, with episodes becoming more apparent in periods of high stress. Neurologists ...
Silvano Arieti (June 28, 1914 in Pisa, Italy – August 7, 1981 in New York City) was a psychiatrist regarded as one of the world's foremost authorities on schizophrenia.He received his M.D. from the University of Pisa and left Italy soon after, due to the increasingly antisemitic racial policies of Benito Mussolini.
A closely related category is mystical experience with psychotic features, proposed by David Lukoff in 1985. [12]A first episode of mystical psychosis is often very frightening, confusing and distressing, particularly because it is an unfamiliar experience.
Schizophrenia is a mental disorder [17] [7] characterized variously by hallucinations (typically, hearing voices), delusions, disorganized thinking and behavior, [10] and flat or inappropriate affect. [7]
Terence McKenna advocated the exploration of altered states of mind via the ingestion of naturally occurring psychedelic substances; [5] [32] [43] for example, and in particular, as facilitated by the ingestion of high doses of psychedelic mushrooms, [26] [55] ayahuasca, and DMT, [6] which he believed was the apotheosis of the psychedelic ...
A study investigating media reports of the experience of hearing voices found that 84% of the articles in the study contained no suggestion that voice-hearing can be ‘normal’. Half of those that did, put voice-hearing in a religious or spiritual context, for example considering the case of Joan of Arc. Most of the articles (81.8%) connected ...
Mesopotamian doctors kept detailed record of their patients' hallucinations and assigned spiritual meanings to them. [6] A patient who hallucinated that he was seeing a dog was predicted to die; [6] whereas, if he saw a gazelle, he would recover. [6] The royal family of Elam was notorious for its members frequently being insane. [6]
Beers was born in New Haven on March 30, 1876. He was one of five children, all of whom would suffer from psychological distress and would spend time in mental institutions, including Beers himself (see "Clifford W. Beers, Advocate for the Insane").