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Elyn Saks. 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 ...
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 ...
Diagnosed with schizophrenia as a child, Lake continued to make movies into the 1960s and 70s before her death in 1973. She continues to be a revered Hollywood icon. Veronica Lake circa 1950
Ted Kaczynski. Theodore John Kaczynski ( / kəˈzɪnski / ⓘ kə-ZIN-skee; May 22, 1942 – June 10, 2023), also known as the Unabomber ( / ˈjuːnəbɒmər / ⓘ YOO-nə-bom-ər ), was an American mathematician and domestic terrorist. [ 1] [ 2] He was a mathematics prodigy, but abandoned his academic career in 1969 to pursue a primitive ...
Date. June 20, 2001; 23 years ago. ( 2001-06-20) Killed. 5. Andrea Pia Yates ( née Kennedy; born July 3, 1964) is an American woman from Houston, Texas, who confessed to drowning her five children in their bathtub on June 20, 2001. [ 2] The case of Yates—who had exhibited severe postpartum depression, postpartum psychosis, and schizophrenia ...
Philip Kindred Dick (December 16, 1928 – March 2, 1982), often referred to by his initials PKD, was an American science fiction writer and novelist. [ 1] He wrote 44 novels and about 121 short stories, most of which appeared in science fiction magazines during his lifetime. [ 2] His fiction explored varied philosophical and social questions ...
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 ...
Daniel Dale Johnston (January 22, 1961 – c. September 11, 2019) was an American singer, musician and artist regarded as a significant figure in outsider, lo-fi, and alternative music scenes. [ 2][ 3] Most of his work consisted of cassettes recorded alone in his home, [ 5] and his music was frequently cited for its "pure" and "childlike ...