By Peter Chadwick, Peter K. Chadwick
The case reports of a few of the sufferers the writer has labored with are provided during this examine. It increases the query of no matter if schizophrenia might be considered as a ailment that we actually are looking to get rid of, or even if schizophrenia truly endows its victims with important characteristics we must always be nurturing - those that paintings heavily with sufferes usually file that they appear to have additional perceptions, empathy and sensitivity. this article may be of curiosity to somebody operating with, or considering operating, with schizophrenics, particularly psychologists, psychiatrists, nurses and social staff.
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Alas, my mother, Edith Burghall, always made clear from as early an age as I can remember with distinctness her very low opinion of me as a person and all attempts on my part to ‘be good’ were met by sarcasm, cynical remarks or snide insults. That was her characteristically paranoid way: good behaviour (particularly from her straying husband’s lookalike son) was a mask to get round her and was never to be trusted, while bad behaviour was genuine and gave her gleeful licence for the savage character attacks which came so easily to her.
Yet to me all these categories of people symbolised rhythm, beauty, grace, style and a certain effervescent magic and buoyant ‘music’ that low-key Northern European Caucasian men simply did not possess. My own femininity of temperament had not surprisingly been mercilessly scorned and punished at school and the softness intrinsic to it had been something that my mother had, as she put it, ‘tried to knock out of me’—so frightened by it had she been. All of these people’s efforts to shape me in a Northwest of England Skinner box into ‘one of the lads’ and ‘a Real Man’ I now A JOURNEY BEYOND THE SELF 29 threw metaphorically completely into the dustbin.
The British view of schizotypy, first THE SCHIZOPHRENIC CREDIT SO FAR 21 suggested as a concept by Rado (1953) and Meehl (1962), owes a great deal to the work of Gordon Claridge (1985, 1988, 1990; Claridge and Beech 1995) and refers largely to the positive symptom constellation (as in the STA scale of Claridge and Broks 1984 and Jackson and Claridge 1991). It is also subject to the assumption that high scorers on STA schizotypy genuinely do have a predisposition to positive symptom schizophrenia.