Re: A Bio And A Movie: Nash.

[Brian Whatcott <betwys@DIRECTVINTERNET.COM>]

Here's what Brian at wsu has to offer:

In popular usage, "schizophrenic" (and the more slangy
and now dated "schizoid") indicates "split between two
attitudes." This drives people with training in psychiatry
 crazy. "Schizo-" does indeed mean "split," but is used
here to mean "split off from reality." Someone with a
Jekyll-and-Hyde personality is suffering from
 "multiple personality disorder" (or, more recently
 "dissociative identity disorder"), not "schizophrenia."


Quoting this URL...

<http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/schizophrenic.html>

Brian W


At 12:06 PM 10/12/02, Jack Uretsky <jlu@HEP.ANL.GOV>, you wrote:
> Did you by any chance mean "schizoid"?  The two are very, very different.
>
>
> On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, Brian Whatcott wrote:
>
> > My son has bought a movie DVD, he tells me. It's called
> > something like  "A Beautiful Mind".
> > I haven't seen it yet, but he recommends it. And he left me a
> > relevant Nobel bio to read.  This, I can recommend.
> >  It's by John F. Nash, Jr.
> >
> > <http://www.nobel.se/economics/laureates/1994/nash-autobio.html>
> >
> > Meanwhile, I was laughing with my wife at a free weekend satellite
> >  TV offering on Starz called, "America's Sweethearts".
> >
> > Such a schizophrenic mix of entertainments, but both ringing with a
> > shimmering honesty of their diverse genres.
> > Enjoy!

Brian Whatcott
  Altus OK                      Eureka!

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