Word: schizophrenia
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...obviously disturbed and yet disarmingly intelligent, with a palpable vein of violence in his otherwise gentle personality—but the fact that the character is mentally ill does half of his dirty work for him. There is no need to drum up sympathy for a teenager with schizophrenia, even if he did throw his best friend onto the subway tracks...
...Sound and the Fury” to commercials for St. Jude’s research hospital. Wray doesn’t have to do the difficult and virtuosic work of setting up a fictional environment in which Will’s violence is forgivable. It’s the schizophrenia defense. Will’s twisted logic unspools over time, but never is there an instant’s doubt that the incident isn’t fully justified by the illness...
...Without direct experience in the awful second language of mental illness, one cannot say whether the translation is in fact, accurate, but Wright's visual representations of schizophrenia are searing. Teenage Ayers watches a burning car drive by and we assume it is the symptom of a rough neighborhood, but as it glides past with eerie smoothness, it is revealed to be hallucination...
...fact, yoga therapy may even offer some aid to psychiatry's most intractable patients. Visceglia is in the process of analyzing data from a recent study she conducted at Bronx State Psychiatric Center on the effects of yoga therapy in people with chronic schizophrenia, some of whom have been hospitalized for 15 to 20 years. Her study suggests a decrease in negative symptoms and an increase in quality of life. The endocrine system and parasympathetic nervous system are out of whack in schizophrenia patients; yoga affects these systems, Visceglia says, leading to an increased overall feeling of calm...
...about your enemies or the people who don’t understand you.”“Tyson” stemmed from the mutual understanding between Toback and Tyson of the multiplicity of voices within the mind. This is “madness” rather than schizophrenia, according to Toback, who talks openly about his experience with LSD that left him both “enlightened” and permanently haunted. This parallels Tyson’s traumatic three years in prison, after which he was left with an acquired split-personality. The film mirrors this confusion...