Hey everyone, I have to do a Psychology oral presentation on Scitzophrenia (sp?).

Anyway it's a group presentation about it and the movie donnie darko. Someone is explainin the movie, someone is explaining schitzophrenia, someone is making a poster board and i'm supposed to do something else.

So I'm tryin to find either famous cases about it in psych, or psychologists that pioneered the field. I tried google and yahoo, and really cant find much. Does anyone have any ideas?

Type in "schizophrenia" in the About.com site. It should come up with a few results.

wake up, donnie...








such a good movie!


and if you're talking schizophrenia, Edgar Poe described it first in the Tell-Tale Heart...

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Ever seen "A Beautiful Mind" with Russel Crow? Good movie. He plays a schizo math guy, who well...just go watch it!

Reason why i mention this is because the guy who Crow portrays is a " life story" of an actual university professor, i think in harvard or mit or something.

do something on the Genain Quadruplets.

they are obviously quadruplets, but they all have become schizophrenic before age 25. They all formed schizophrenia yet they all differed in severity, chronicity, and eventual outcome. so that would give support to a diathesis-stress model in that a genetic factor would give a better probability of developing the disorder, but there needs to be more environmental factors to cause it.


Rosenthal, D. wrote a book entitled The Genain Quadruplets in 1963 and there was a follow up study in 1984 by delisi in Psychiatric resources..(not sure on title of journal, also one by mirsky in the same journal, and by Sargent in 1982 in some ADAMHA news.


search around, they might be worth mentioning. and I am not sure there is a main figure in schizophrenic research. You could get into treatments for it. They shipped the patients off to wards so they were isolated from the public and were given electroconvulsive therapy and I forget the other type (they used it in the beautiful mind movie)

thats all I got.

u could try talkin about the treatments for the illness
such as ECT- electro- convulsive therapy and the moral issues involved with such therapies as opposed to medications

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Originally posted by Dmatrox Ever seen "A Beautiful Mind" with Russel Crow? Good movie. He plays a schizo math guy, who well...just go watch it! Reason why i mention this is because the guy who Crow portrays is a " life story" of an actual university professor, i think in harvard or mit or something.

This is a bad ass movie, one of my favorites.

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Music is the answer.....to your problems

this reminds me of a poem

" roses are red
violets are blue
im schizophrenic
and so am i "



i lub it

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Originally posted by Dmatrox Ever seen "A Beautiful Mind" with Russel Crow? Good movie. He plays a schizo math guy, who well...just go watch it! Reason why i mention this is because the guy who Crow portrays is a " life story" of an actual university professor, i think in harvard or mit or something.

princeton, isn't it? he still teaches there and no, he hasn't proved the thing yet...

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ahh we were just talking about schizophrenia in psychology. his pills were placebos, so maybe you could even talk about the problem with psychiatrists prescribing pills to mask the underlying disorder than needs to be dealt with. you could talk about the different types of therapy (humanistic, psychoanalytic, cognitive) and point out what one she is using. also talk about the subtypes of schizophrenia (paranoid, catatonic, etc), i believe hes paranoid (so talk about his delusions and how they relate to what hes thinking.

great fucking movie by the way one of my all time favorites.

I have a book called "DSM-IV Made Easy" by James Morrison. But the chapter on Schizophrenia and other pyschotic disorders are very lengthy. It gives many case studies that you could use. If I were you, I'd stop by a bookstore and look this stuff up in this book.

It's lengthy and detailed, but the gist:
Lyonel Childs - hallucinations, delusions
Bob Naples - badly disorganized speech and behavior
Natasha Oblamov - visual hallucinations, delusions, Flat effect (talked about eels in her toilet with no emotion).
Ramona Kelt - disorganized behavior and a delusion about TV cameras. Bizarre speech and behavior. Avolition: If her husband didn't plan her day for her, she would accomplish nothing.
Rodrigo Chavez - olfactory hallucinations, elaborate delusion about being poisoned.
Danny Finch - Alcohol Withdrawal Delirium. He was a heavy drinker and had withdrawal.

I have a small web link you can see from the book http://www.geocities.com/morrison94/psychosis.htm though it won't give the case studies.

I don't know if any of that helps, but I tried.