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Darrell Hammond – American comedian, actor on Saturday Night Live [38] Tom Harrell – American jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist, composer, and arranger [39] Donny Hathaway – American soul singer and songwriter [40] Michael Hawkins – American actor; diagnosed with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder [41] Luke Helder – The Midwest Pipe ...
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 ...
Elyn R. Saks is associate dean and Orrin B. Evans Professor of Law, Psychology, and Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences at the University of Southern California Gould Law School, an expert in mental health law, and a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship winner. [1] [2] Saks lives with schizophrenia and has written about her experience with the ...
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 ...
Frieda Fromm-Reichmann ( née Reichmann; October 23, 1889 in Karlsruhe, Germany – April 28, 1957 in Rockville, Maryland) was a German psychiatrist and contemporary of Sigmund Freud who immigrated to America during World War II. She was a pioneer for women in science, specifically within psychology and the treatment of schizophrenia.
Wesley Lawrence Willis (May 31, 1963 – August 21, 2003) was an American musician and visual artist. Diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1989, Willis began a career as an underground singer-songwriter in the outsider music tradition. Willis' songs are typically partially spoken in an MC style, and partially sung in a nasal and out-of-tune manner ...
May was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1986 at age 18. May was compulsorily detained in a psychiatric hospital on three occasions. He understands his psychotic experiences as a reaction to experiences of emotional loss and social isolation. Among other beliefs, he developed ideas he was an apprentice spy for the British secret service.
History of schizophrenia. The word schizophrenia was coined by the Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler in 1908, and was intended to describe the separation of function between personality, thinking, memory, and perception. Bleuler introduced the term on 24 April 1908 in a lecture given at a psychiatric conference in Berlin and in a publication ...