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- From: csuah@warwick.ac.uk (~WISP at CU~)
- Subject: Re: a few comments on Fabrikant
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- References: <BtnvIz.4pF@cs.dal.ca> <1992Aug28.182529.3928@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca>
- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 20:23:23 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug28.182529.3928@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca> mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (Marc Roussel) writes:
- >In article <BtnvIz.4pF@cs.dal.ca> kumar@ug.cs.dal.ca (kumar yelubandi) writes:
- >> Point taken. Though I must point out, I find it
- >> hard to believe that any biochemical imbalance
- >> in the brain (I'm sure you would agree that
- >> schizophrenia and like neuroses can be linked to
- >> biochemistry) would allow a manc
- >> to function at the top of his intellectual ability.
- >
- > Actually, I'm quite sure that this is wrong too. Many paranoid
- >schizophrenics are very highly talented individuals. (I saw one
- >documentary once which actually called paranoid schizophrenia a disease
- >of the hyperintelligent. One of the case studies in this documentary
- >was a professor as well. He was quite productive between bouts of the
- >disease and sometimes even in the midst of attacks.)
- > Isn't anyone else suspicious about the fact that he seemed to be
- >doing quite well until last year? (By this I mean that all the reports
- >we have seen indicate that he was well-respected and working normally at
- >Concordia.) Sudden degradations in work relationships are a classic sign
- >of paranoid schizophrenia.
- > Again, I have no training in psychology, so if anyone out there
- >does and can either confirm my impressions or contradict them, feel free
- >to do so.
- >
-
- Well, I think you're right on the mark. I'm not a psychologist, but part of my
- medical training involved psychiatry, and the sad tale told on this group over
- the last week or two is a pretty good case study in paranoid psychosis, if not
- necessarily accompanied by schizophrenia...
-
- Chris Williams.
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- Chris Williams <csuah@uk.ac.warwick.csv> aka <csuah@csv.warwick.ac.uk>
- "Tony Greig in the slips, legs apart, waiting for a tickle"
- Brian Johnson (thanks to A. Simha 8^>)
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