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Michael Hawkins – American actor; diagnosed with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder [ 41] Luke Helder – The Midwest Pipe Bomber [ 42] – schizoaffective disorder. David Helfgott – Australian concert pianist ( schizoaffective disorder) [ 43] John Hinckley Jr. – American failed assassin of Ronald Reagan [ 44]
Famous People With Schizophrenia Zelda Fitzgerald. As the wife of The Great Gatsby writer F. Scott Fitzgerald and a talented writer and artist in her own right, Zelda Fitzgerald is best-known for ...
Specialty. Psychiatry. Grandiose delusions ( GDs ), also known as delusions of grandeur or expansive delusions, [ 1] are a subtype of delusion characterized by extraordinary belief that one is famous, omnipotent, wealthy, or otherwise very powerful. Grandiose delusions often have a religious, science fictional, or supernatural theme.
Medication. Antipsychotics. Capgras delusion or Capgras syndrome is a psychiatric disorder in which a person holds a delusion that a friend, spouse, parent, another close family member, or pet has been replaced by an identical impostor. [ a] It is named after Joseph Capgras (1873–1950), the French psychiatrist who first described the disorder.
Albert W. Tucker. John Forbes Nash, Jr. (June 13, 1928 – May 23, 2015), known and published as John Nash, was an American mathematician who made fundamental contributions to game theory, real algebraic geometry, differential geometry, and partial differential equations. [ 1][ 2] Nash and fellow game theorists John Harsanyi and Reinhard Selten ...
Post-traumatic organic. v. t. e. Schizoid personality disorder ( / ˈskɪtsɔɪd, ˈskɪdzɔɪd, ˈskɪzɔɪd /, often abbreviated as SzPD or ScPD) is a personality disorder characterized by a lack of interest in social relationships, [ 9] a tendency toward a solitary or sheltered lifestyle, secretiveness, emotional coldness, detachment, and ...
The Three Christs of Ypsilanti (1964) is a book-length psychiatric case study by Milton Rokeach, concerning his experiment on a group of three males with paranoid schizophrenia at Ypsilanti State Hospital [ 1] in Ypsilanti, Michigan. The book details the interactions of the three patients—Clyde Benson, Joseph Cassel, and Leon Gabor—each of ...
Cotard's syndrome, also known as Cotard's delusion or walking corpse syndrome, is a rare mental disorder in which the affected person holds the delusional belief that they are dead, do not exist, are putrefying, or have lost their blood or internal organs. [ 1] Statistical analysis of a hundred-patient cohort indicated that denial of self ...