I noticed the book is The Collected Schizophrenias, with "schizophrenias" plural.
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The Collected Schizophrenias , by Esmé Weijun Wang (Graywolf) .
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But The Collected Schizophrenias is her most personal work yet.
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From The Collected Schizophrenias by Esmé Weijun Wang (Graywolf Press, February 5, 2019).
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I also get a book for myself — The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays by Esmé Weijun Wang.
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What are some of the stigmas the schizophrenias have, even within the world of mental illness?
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Esmé Weijun Wang's collection of essays on mental illness, The Collected Schizophrenias, will be released this month.
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"Schizophrenia terrifies" — these are the first words in the first essay in Esmé Weijun Wang's The Collected Schizophrenias.
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Some psychiatrists long ago posited that many "schizophrenias" existed — different paths that led to what looked like one disorder.
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Esmé Weijun Wang is the author of the essay collection The Collected Schizophrenias and the novel The Border of Paradise.
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In The Collected Schizophrenias, author Esmé Weijun Wang does just that, and lays bare the complexities, trials, and contradictions that can come with living with schizoaffective disorder.
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He was one of the biggest names in psychiatric history and the researcher who came up with the idea of the "schizophrenias" as more like a spectrum.
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You can't read this book without gaining a more compassionate and nuanced understanding of those touched by the schizophrenias, and it will make you painfully aware of the fragility of human consciousness.
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Unlike some firsthand accounts, Esmé Weijun Wang's bestselling new book, The Collected Schizophrenias, isn't about overcoming illness — instead it's an inside look at how she successfully lives with an incurable condition, schizoaffective disorder.
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"The Collected Schizophrenias" is, indisputably, an addition to the lineage that includes Sylvia Plath's "The Bell Jar," Susanna Kaysen's "Girl, Interrupted" and Kay Redfield Jamison's "An Unquiet Mind," to name just a few.
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Though primarily called to fiction, Wang wrote The Collected Schizophrenias because schizophrenia and its associated conditions do terrify, and remain so stigmatized, and there is so little writing from people who have the condition.
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She writes about it in her new book of essays, The Collected Schizophrenias, as an example of when an everyday activity like going to the movies can have a dramatic effect on someone's mental state.
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In a way, it's the graphic counterpart to Esmé Weijun Wang's The Collected Schizophrenias, a recently published collection of essays centered around the author's diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder and the day-to-day limitations it posed.
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I think that part of the reason I did not receive a diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder until eight years after I experienced my first hallucinations was due to the fact that there is so much stigma surrounding the schizophrenias.
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THE COLLECTED SCHIZOPHRENIAS EssaysBy Esmé Weijun Wang In an era when many Americans feel on the edge of a nervous breakdown, when paranoia reigns, and reality has turned slippery, Esmé Weijun Wang's collection of essays about the line between sanity and psychosis is particularly well timed.
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With the schizophrenias, for example, you're starting off with a fairly heavy burden—the diagnosis carries with it so much social, cultural, and historical stigma, and one way to self-protect from the weight of that burden can be to try and associate with characteristics that are typically seen as positive.
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This story may sound familiar: "The brilliant female student who ends up in an asylum" is a well-trod literary genre both in fiction and nonfiction (Sylvia Plath's "The Bell Jar"; Susanna Kaysen's "Girl, Interrupted"; Kay Redfield Jamison's "An Unquiet Mind"; Elizabeth Wurtzel's "Prozac Nation"; Elyn R. Saks's "The Center Cannot Hold," to name just a few), and "The Collected Schizophrenias" is, indisputably, an addition to this lineage.
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Here are some of the books discussed in this week's "What We're Reading": "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" by Muriel Spark "Say Nothing" by Patrick Radden Keefe "When in French" by Lauren Collins "The Dreamers" by Karen Thompson Walker "The Good Immigrant" edited by Nikesh Shukla and Chimene Suleyman "The Collected Schizophrenias" by Esmé Weijun Wang "Disappearing Earth" by Julia Phillips "Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret" by Craig Brown We would love to hear your thoughts about this episode, and about the Book Review's podcast in general.
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The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls by Anissa GrayDesign: Emily OsborneArt: Alice Lindstrom We Cast a Shadow by Maurice Carlos RuffinDesign: Rodrigo Corral Gingerbread by Helen OyeyemiDesign: Helen Yentus The Bird King by G. Willow WilsonDesign: Helen Crawford-White The Old Drift by Namwali SerpellDesign: Kai and Sunny Life Support: 100 Poems to Reach for on Dark Nights edited by Julia CopusDesign: Helen Crawford-White The Collected Schizophrenias by Esmé Weijun WangDesign: Kimberly Glyder The Crying Book by Heather ChristieDesign: Nicole Caputo The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi CoatesArt: Calida Garcia RawlesDesign: Greg Mollica In the Dream House by Carmen Maria MachadoArt: Alex Eckman-LawnDesign: Kimberly Glyder Kaddish.
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Dementia Praecox or the Group of Schizophrenias. Translated by J. Zinkin. New York: International Universities Press, Inc. (1950), p. 238.
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E.R.P. in Schizophrenias. Current psychiatry, 1996. 173\. Informed Consent. Mediterranean versus Anglo-Saxon. Read at WPA regional symposium, Geneva, 1996. 174\.
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The Collected Schizophrenias is a 2019 collection of essays by Esmé Weijun Wang. Published by Graywolf Press, it won the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize, as well as the Whiting Award for Nonfiction.
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Helmut Beckmann proposed to go back on the painstaking road of psychopathological differentiation in order to obtain the most homogeneous groups for investigation, thus enabling sophisticated modern biomedical techniques to bring more certainty to the field. In a series of reports, he and his co-workers pinpointed the nosological autonomy of cycloid psychoses, unsystematic and systematic schizophrenias by inter-rater reliability analysis and long-term follow-up studies. He emphasized that the phenomenon of birth seasonality is confined to an excess of winter and spring births in cycloid psychoses and systematic schizophrenias (both groups with low familial loading of psychosis). Subsequent studies on maternal recall of gestational infections documented a direct relationship between flu-like and febrile affections in the first trimester of maternal gestation with the later occurrence of cycloid psychoses and second trimester affections with manifestations of systematic schizophrenias.
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1972 Jul;4(1):51-9. Pfeiffer collaborated with Abram Hoffer. Hoffer A, A Brief History of the Discovery of Kryptopyrrolle: A Diagnostic Test for a Subgroup of the Schizophrenias, Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine Vol. 16, 1st Quarter 2001.
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Pfeiffer CC et al. Blood histamine levels, basophil counts, and trace metals in the schizophrenias, Psychopharmacol Bull. 1971 Jul;7(3):37.Pfeiffer CC. Extreme basophil counts and blood histamine levels in schizophrenic outpatients as compared to normals, Res Commun Chem Pathol Pharmacol.
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The main symptoms of paraphrenia are paranoid delusions and hallucinations.Kay, D. W., & Roth, M. (1961). Environmental and hereditary factors in schizophrenias of old-age (late paraphrenia) and their bearing on general problem of causation in schizophrenia. Journal of Mental Science, 107, 649.
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Zilboorg, Gregory. Ambulatory Schizophrenias. In: Psychiatry, Volume 4, 1941, P. 149–155 As cues that Hitler had this condition, Waite specified Hitler's Oedipus complex, his infantile phantasy, his volatile inconsistency and his alleged coprophilia and urolagnia.Waite, Robert G. L. ' The Psychopathic God: Adolf Hitler, Basic Books, 1977.
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Rosenthal, D. (1974). Introduction to Manfred Bleuler's "The offspring of schizophrenics". Manfred Bleuler has been praised as the foremost Bleuler scholar, providing valuable insight into his father's seminal Dementia Praecox or the Group of Schizophrenias.Moskowitz, A. (2011). Eugen Bleuler’s Dementia Praecox or the Group of Schizophrenias (1911): A Centenary Appreciation and Reconsideration.
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Dementia Praecox or the Group of Schizophrenias. Translated by J. Zinkin. New York: International Universities Press, Inc. (1950). The concept of psychosis as a spectrum was further developed by psychologists such as Hans Eysenck and Gordon Claridge, who sought to understand unusual variations in thought and behaviour in terms of personality theory.
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It has possibly the earliest onset compared to all other schizophrenias, considered to begin in some within childhood. Symptoms of schizophrenia simplex include an absence of will, impoverished thinking and flattening of affect. There is a gradual deterioration of functioning with increased amotivation and reduced socialization.Description of Simple Schizophrenia in DSM-IV-TR, provided by Brown University. p.5-6.
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The avoidant personality has been described in several sources as far back as the early 1900s, although it was not so named for some time. Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler described patients who exhibited signs of avoidant personality disorder in his 1911 work Dementia Praecox: Or the Group of Schizophrenias. Avoidant and schizoid patterns were frequently confused or referred to synonymously until Kretschmer (1921), in providing the first relatively complete description, developed a distinction.
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