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Schizophrenia
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schizophrenia
schizophrenia
(sktse-frn-e, -frn-e) noun
1. Any of a group of
psychotic disorders usually characterized by withdrawal
from reality,
illogical patterns of thinking, delusions, and hallucinations,
and accompanied in varying degrees by other emotional,
behavioral, or intellectual disturbances. Schizophrenia, often
associated with dopamine imbalances in the brain and defects
of the frontal lobe, may have an underlying genetic cause.
2. A condition that
results from the coexistence of disparate or antagonistic
qualities, identities, or activities: the schizophrenia of the
double espionage agent.
Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia, group of mental disorders marked by a variety of symptoms. Not until the 20th century was schizophrenia distinguished from other forms of mental illness.
Symptoms
Symptoms of schizophrenia include thought
disorders, hallucinations, inappropriate emotional reactions,
and excited, repetitive movements. Schizophrenia usually occurs
before middle age, and the first episode typically takes place
during adolescence or young adulthood. It involves deterioration
in a person's work, social relationships, and ability to care
for himself or herself, together with one or more of the
symptoms noted above.
Causes
Schizophrenia results
from an interplay of biology, psychology, and culture. It does
run in families, and investigators have debated whether the
condition is due to heredity or the result of being reared by
a parent with a disorganized personality. Recent studies have
demonstrated that schizophrenia can involve a genetic defect.
For instance, researchers at the University of Colorado
announced in 1997 that they had possibly identified a genetic
defect that is linked to a receptor in the brain that
contributes to a person's ability to filter out background
noise. In schizophrenics this flawed receptor apparently
causes auditory hallucinations.
Psychological research has linked schizophrenia to environmental conditions, such as unclear communication within families and the disorganized family life or poor health that is often associated with poverty. Brain research has provided several clues to organic factors related to schizophrenia. For instance, dopamine, a chemical messenger in the brain, may be present in abnormal quantities in schizophrenia. Also, structural abnormalities have been found in brains of some people with schizophrenia.
Treatment
The most powerful
treatments for schizophrenia are antipsychotic drugs, which
enable many people with schizophrenia to function free of
troublesome symptoms. Drugs may stop acute episodes of
schizophrenia and prevent future breakdowns. They can produce
side effects, however, and long-term consequences. Not every
patient with schizophrenia benefits from antipsychotic drugs,
and some do not need them at all. Psychotherapy is also
commonly used to treat patients who receive medication.
schizophrenia (noun)
multiformity: schizophrenia, split
personality, dual personality, multiple personality, personality
disorder
psychosis: catatonia, schizophrenia
Mental Illness
Schizophrenia may be a
necessary consequence of literacy.
Marshall McLuhan (1911-80),
Canadian communications theorist. The Gutenberg Galaxy,
"Typographic Man Can Express But Is Helpless to Read the
Configuration of Print Technology" (1962).
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Mental Illness
There is no such
"condition" as "schizophrenia," but the label is a social fact
and the social fact a political event.
R.
D. Laing (1927-89), British psychiatrist. The Politics
of Experience, ch. 5 (1967).
Writing
Writing is a socially acceptable form of
schizophrenia.
E. L. Doctorow (b. 1931), U.S. novelist.
Interview in Writers at Work (Eighth Series, ed. by George
Plimpton, 1988).
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Another example of a
current manifestation of this imaginal aspect of electricity
or electromagnetism
is in the motifs of schizophrenia and paranoia. The most
common ones which you will know from the "X Files" is that
someone has implanted
a small chip in us and is controlling us from a distance
through electromagnetic waves. This is a very common and
powerful motif within schizophrenic madness, and is less
explicitly manifested in conspiratorial theories. It goes back
throughout the history of modern communication technologies.
(I am using the word "schizophrenia" in quotes because, of
course, it too is a construct which can be questioned
and interrogated.) But we already know that schizophrenia acts
in many ways as a kind of avant-garde. It is interesting
how they pick up things right away. As soon as the telephone was
invented, Thomas Watson got reports from people saying
that other people had implanted telephones inside their heads
and were using them to give them secret messages and trying to
control them and tell them what to do.
Beneath this figure of
madness is a whole set of very powerful and profound
questions that affect those of us who are not sucked into
these kinds of worldviews, questions about
electromagnetic control, about the limits of identity
and about the unseen level of vibrational influences which, if
you actually unpack, have a lot to do with the more
theoretical questions we have about power and control in
the information
industry.
- Erik Davis - _Spiritual Telegraphs and the Technology of Communication_ lecture
In his controversial 1976 book, _The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind_, Julian Jaynes, a Princeton psychologist, argued that the brain activity of ancient people - those living roughly 3,500 years ago, prior to early evidence of consciousness such as logic, reason, and ethics - would have resembled that of modern schizophrenics. Jaynes maintained that, like schizophrenics, the ancients heard voices, summoned up visions, and lacked the sense of metaphor and individual identity that characterizes a more advanced mind. He said that some of these ancestral synaptic leftovers are buried deep in the modern brain, which would explain many of our present-day sensations of god or spirituality.
by Elf Power off of _Creatures_ on spinArt
(2002) In Summary: thoughts
of the brain are experienced by us as arrangements and
rearrangements - change - in a physical universe; but in fact
it is really information and information processing which we
substantialize. We do not merely see its thoughts as objects:
how they become linked to one another. But we cannot read the
patterns of arrangement; we cannot extract the information
from it - i.e., it as information, which is what it is. The
linking and relinking of objects by the Brain is actually a
language, but not a language
like ours (since it is addressing itself and not someone or
something outside itself).
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We should be able to
hear this information, or rather narrative, as a neutral voice
inside us. But something has gone wrong. All creation is a
language and nothing but a language, which for some
inexplicable reason we can't read outside and can't hear
inside. So I say, we have become idiots. Something has
happened to our intelligence. My reasoning is this:
arrangements of parts of the Brain is a language. We are parts
of the Brain; therefore we are language. Why, then do we not
know this? We do not even know what we are, let alone what our
outer reality is of which we are parts. The origin of the word
"idiot" is the word "private." Each of
us has become private,
and no longer shares the common thought of the Brain, except
at a subliminal level. Thus our real life and purpose are
conducted below our threshold of consciousness.
From loss and grief the Mind has become deranged. Therefore we, as parts of the universe, the Brain, are partly deranged.
Out of itself the
Brain has constructed a physician to heal it. The subform of
the Macro-Brain is not deranged; it moves through the Brain,
as a phagocyte moves through the cardiovascular system of an
animal, healing the derangement of the Brain in section after
section. We know of its arrival here; we know it as Asklepios
for the Greeks and as the Essenes for the Jews; as the
Terapeutae for the Egyptians.
From _VALIS_ by Philip K. Dick
"It is not a sign of good health to be well adjusted to a sick society." - J. Krishnamurti
[...] schizophrenics
often report oceanic feelings of oneness with the universe,
but in a magic,
delusional way. They describe feeling a loss of
boundaries between themselves and others, a belief that
leads them to think their thoughts are no longer
private. They believe they are able to read the thoughts
of others. And instead of viewing people, objects, and
concepts as individual things, they often view them as members
of larger and larger subclasses, a tendency that seems to be a
way of expressing the holographic quality of the reality in which
they find themselves.
- _The
Holographic Universe_by
Michael Talbot
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"If the human race survives, future men
will, I suspect, look back on our enlightened epoch as a
veritable Age of Darkness... They will see that what was
considered 'schizophrenic' was one of the forms in which, often
through quite ordinary people, the light began to
break into our all-too-closed minds."
"It is justifiable to regard
the term 'sickness' as pertaining not to the acute turmoil but
to the pre-psychotic personality, standing as it does in need of
profound reorganization. In this case, the renewal process
occuring in the acute psychotic episode may be considered
nature's way of setting things right."
- John Weir Perry
ethnic schizophreniaOutsider
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of _Lifeforms_ CDx2 on
Astralwerks (1994)EBN off of
_Telecommunication Breakdown_ CDplus on TVT (1995)
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on Novamute #061 (1998) by Quadrophonia off
of _Schizofrenia - The Worst Day Of My Life_ 12" (1992)604
track _Skitzophrenik_ MP3 (160k) by Tripsters off of _The
Technical Use Of Sound In Magick_ compilation CD on Dragonfly (1996) by Concentrix by Acid Rockers off of
_Mind Set_ on Blue Room
Released (2001) by Schizoid off of _Enough Is
Enough__Twenty-Three Lubed Up Schizophrenics With Delusions Of Grandeur_ MP3 by The Locust off of _Plague Soundscapes_ 12" (picture disc)(clear vinyl) on Anti (2003)
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digital hardcore track
_All Things Are Connected_ MP3 by Schizoid off of _All
Things Are Connected_ CD on D-Trash Technologies by Schitzomatic off of
_Cosmic Evolution_
compilation CD on Agitato by Schitzophrenic Society off
of _Psionic Tonik_ CD
on DeMonTea (2001)/Thoughts Crossed
Back_ MP3 (160k) 12"
by Matenda/Logic Bomb on Transient (2000) by godheadSilo off of
_Scientific Supercake_ 12" on
Killrockstars (1994) by Aural Blasphemy off of
_Catharsis_ on Progressive Blindfold Recordings #017 (2000) by
Sonic Youth off of _Sister_ 12" (purple
vinyl) on SST (1987)(2010) |
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by SiouxSiouxSiouxsie
& The Banshees off of _The Scream_ 12" (1978)Prisoner - Episode 5: The Schizoid
Man_
by The Delta on
D-Drum (1999) |
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07:26 07:26 00:47 10:36memeflow _Helter
Skelter_ MP3 by The Beatles) 07:51 08:11 |
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butterfly
up on the walls" 
by R.B.
from the film _Dialogues With Mad Women_ directed by
Allie Light re: documentary about women who had had
mental breakdowns or mental illness 06:51
06:41
06:57drummer's
daughter, pounding, daughter of sound, dancing, i am a
child of music, child of movement; she has learned to
be quiet and still..." from the film
_Conversations With Mad Women_ re: documentary about
women who had had mental breakdowns or mental illnessDub Edit)_ MP3 05:19
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