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Clinical Philosophy

In a recent episode of The Life Scientific , the guest - psychologist Julia Shaw (who researches false memories, forensic psychology, and bisexuality) - talks about coming to understand that her father was schizophrenic. By analogy: think of the different treatment implications that can sometimes follow from psychiatric diagnosis.)

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sanity, madness, the family. and the kettle

Clinical Philosophy

Suffice it for now to say that she's a 28 year old only child who has mainly stayed in a psychiatric hospital during the last 10 years, and who was evacuated to live away from her parents during WWII. Her diagnosis is 'paranoid schizophrenia'; she believes others can read her thoughts and are constantly discussing her.