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On 2011-01-12, at 6:51 PM, Louis Proyect wrote: > > ...I describe him as schizophrenic based on the evidence. So does the > psychiatrist interviewed in Salon.com. So does another psychiatrist interviewed on CNN, but she is not unwilling to take the political context into account: BLITZER: So what makes a schizophrenic, even a paranoid schizophrenic, become dangerous? LIPMAN: It isn't even a paranoid schizophrenic, but it's especially a paranoid schizophrenic. Schizophrenics as a whole are not dangerous. A psychopath would be more dangerous. But a paranoid is afraid more than anything else, Wolf, that someone is out to get them. BLITZER: Are they hearing things? Are people talking to them in their brains? LIPMAN: Some have hallucinations and some have delusions. But the key here and the connection to Giffords is that if someone believes that the government is out to get them in a delusional way, that it's filling their mind and running through their mind, and around them is rhetoric which is hostile and chaotic, research shows that it makes the symptoms worse, that because they are paranoid and believe that people are out to get them, they believe in the threat, and in that case they act on it. And that's what I believe. http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1101/11/sitroom.01.html ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
