The episode began at a dinner to celebrate an author’s newest book being published. The author stands to thank the dinner guests and his editor starts trashing him, the book and everyone else. Then he apologizes, starts bleeding from his nose and collapses. House enters his office to find the ...

Just as you believe that maybe, perhaps, the tide is turning and the government that is charged with the responsibility and care of those most in need — the severely mentally ill who are hospitalized — actually “gets” it, you read a story like this one. Raquel Padilla was dis...

I dont often start a thread, I reply to threads mostly, but I just had to get things out and see what others thought. Its 6am right now and I have been awake for 2 hours now, going on very little sleep and last night I had a terrible feeling that something was missing. now I am on that side of thing...

I decided to publish a "Loose Screws Mental Health News" post even though I said a few weeks back I wouldn't do it anymore. Eh, can I change my mind? "Yes I can." :) According to the Journal of Psychiatric......

I’m schizophrenic, on parole because of it, and I am looking for love. Please help. I am a man in my early thirties. In the spring of 2000, I had my first mental break. During the course of this break I committed what the District Attorney’s office in my home state can consider a crime. Basicall...

Happy 2009! We’re leaving tonight on the red-eye to go back from the Bay Area to New Jersey so, in the interest of being able to spend more time in the California sunshine with my guys and my parents, and since it is, indeed, 2009, a few more highlights from 2008. August means one thing in my ...

Songfilter: Heard it on the radio, schizophrenia, prostitution, weirdness. Somewhere between Redding and Sacramento on I-5 last Saturday I was channel surfing on the radio and caught the end of a song that was completely bizarre and now I want to know what it was. The basics: A guy, (Sam, I think) g...

ABOVE: Ultra-bizarre footage of the Philip K Dick android, whose head was unbelievably left in the overhead bin on an airplane, never to be found again. If alive this day, he’d be 80 — today. For some reason, it surprises me that Dick was two years older than Ballard. It always seemed to...

What goes around, comes around. 1952. The DSM-I says this about “000-x28 Schizophrenic reaction, childhood type”: Here will be classified those schizophrenic reactions occurring before puberty. The clinical picture may differ from schizophrenic reactions occurring in other age periods be...

Chapter 36:  She was a Queen: This current chapter covers the period from August 1951 until the 27th November 1955 when Emma Jung died.  It is to her that the title of this chapter refers.  During this time period  he gave the Eranos lecture entitled "On Synchronicity."...