Word: schizophrenia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...literary legends of the century, recounted in several full-length biographies of Scott and mentioned in countless memoirs. Nancy Milford's book retraces all the familiar territory-the marathon drunks, the dips in public fountains-and adds poignant new testimony from diaries and letters concerning Zelda's schizophrenia. The book, though, is yet another proof that to know all is not to forgive...
According to Dr. David Smith, director and founder of the Haight-Ashbury Free Clinic, Charles Manson, like many people who trip, was susceptible to prolonged periods of schizophrenia and feelings of omnipotence. But unlike middle-class college kids who trip towards "peace," Manson's background turned his trip into a journey towards "evil." Unlike students who are alienated from the Government and capitalism, Manson was alienated from everything. He had had a rough lower-middle-class upbringing (he was tossed from home to home), had spent many years in jail, had failed in an attempt to break into show business...
...Professor of Scientology, was L. Ron Hubbard.) Lastly, L. Ron's happy marriage is his third; the first two ended in divorce. His second wife charged that he subjected her to "beatings and torture" and she said that a psychiatrist had told her that Hubbard suffered from "paranoid schizophrenia." Hubbard countered, charging her with "gross neglect of duty" and he won a divorce from...
...five years and bade fair to remain there the rest of his life." In three weeks the patient was better, and he soon went home and back to work. Lithium carbonate, Cade found, appeared to be of little or no value in the treatment of other psychotic states, notably schizophrenia, or in the depressive phase into which most manic patients usually subside...
...element, magnesium. Again Cade picked the carbonate form as the least likely to upset the stomach. He recently told colleagues that he has tried it on himself and noted "a distinct tranquilizing effect," though he considers himself "a pharmacologically tough animal." He also has preliminary evidence that it relieves schizophrenia symptoms in some patients, although not in others...