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Creativity as applied schizophrenia.
I once talked to someone at a party in college that made one brilliant point after another at the intersection of philosophy of mind and economics.
He was crystal clear in his thinking and he had an elaborate (but not overfit as far as I can tell) model of how society was not made of individuals, but rather of attention... See more
Captain Pleasure, Andrés Gómez Emilssonx.comA persistent myth about schizophrenia is that people with the condition have a “split personality” — the idea that the self is split into various identities.
A 2008 National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) survey found that 64% of the respondents believed that “split or multiple personalities” were symptoms of schizophrenia.
While recent mental... See more
A 2008 National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) survey found that 64% of the respondents believed that “split or multiple personalities” were symptoms of schizophrenia.
While recent mental... See more
Traci Pedersen • Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID): Myths vs. Facts
We should bear in mind too that even among the psychological and medical professions there’s a lot of debate about how helpful diagnoses like psychosis or schizophrenia really are. For one thing, recent research has suggested that schizophrenia isn’t a distinct disorder, but instead a catch-all term for a number of different problems.
Jason Freeman • Overcoming Paranoid and Suspicious Thoughts, 2nd Edition: A self-help guide using cognitive behavioural techniques (Overcoming Books)
On one level, this reframing makes schizophrenia more legible by integrating it into familiar patterns of thought. The afflicted are no longer seen as incomprehensible anomalies but as individuals who have simply lost their sense of mental balance. They are, in a sense, not centrist enough !
Brenden • Schizo-surveillance: the politics of sanity
has supposed that she suffered from a brief “psychotic episode” indicative of “schizophrenia.” Bruno Bettelheim, whose trenchant comments on Carotenuto’s book have since been added as a foreword to it, alternates between “either a schizophrenic disturbance or severe hysteria with schizoid features.”