Path: ...!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) Newsgroups: sci.lang Subject: Re: William Chester Minor born (22-6-1834) Date: 22 Jun 2024 11:20:42 GMT Organization: Stefan Ram Lines: 16 Expires: 1 Feb 2025 11:59:58 GMT Message-ID: <1918-20240622121630@ram.dialup.fu-berlin.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de VjK1UDrv6iD3ZRwTbLJsAw3UDLdovrafWhfQTSrgKwQenN Cancel-Lock: sha1:n6Tg92DNYlj4Iwn9AKFKWBlyfwg= sha256:XJNqRKyN7w0gcqwZbfxQQAEvSYUj9HIY42rc4kCBxeY= X-Copyright: (C) Copyright 2024 Stefan Ram. All rights reserved. Distribution through any means other than regular usenet channels is forbidden. It is forbidden to publish this article in the Web, to change URIs of this article into links, and to transfer the body without this notice, but quotations of parts in other Usenet posts are allowed. X-No-Archive: Yes Archive: no X-No-Archive-Readme: "X-No-Archive" is set, because this prevents some services to mirror the article in the web. But the article may be kept on a Usenet archive server with only NNTP access. X-No-Html: yes Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2265 Ross Clark wrote or quoted: >result of a campaign led by Murray, the Home Secretary (one Winston >Churchill) had him released, and he was deported back to the USA. He >spent some time in St. Elizabeth's Hospital, Washington (which later >housed Ezra Pound) and was diagnosed with schizophrenia. (!) Died in 1920. Back in 1918, the way doctors understood schizophrenia was shaped by early psychiatrists like Emil Kraepelin and Eugen Bleuler. Kraepelin first called it "dementia praecox," focusing on its early onset and worsening over time. Later, Bleuler came up with the term "schizophrenia," highlighting the "splitting" of mental functions (rather than a split personality). At that time, the illness was mainly seen through its psychotic symptoms like hallucinations and delusions, but they also started to recognize its broader impact on cognitive and social functions.