{Schizophrenia and Fundamentalism}[30th September 1990]

[Redbook7:346-347][19900930:2135d]{Schizophrenia and Fundamentalism}[30th September 1990]

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I’ve just watched two programmes on BBC1, the one immediately following the other, which emphasise points made already* re Schizophrenia and Fundamentalism.

The first, ‘Can you hear me thinking?’,** was a drama fictionalising the decline into schizophrenia and eventual death*** of an adolescent boy, and the impact of his behaviour on his family. The film was remarkable for the emphasis on religious, and particularly Christian, symbolism in the speech and actions of the schizophrenic. It would be easy, facile, to conclude that religion**** is a firm of schizophrenia; it might be more constructive to consider, assuming that the film was based on authentic cases, whether the Churches can do more than they do, and do what perhaps no[-]one else can do, to help schizophrenics of this kind.

(The arrows are meant to be spiralling outwards – my draughtsmanship is awful – hence the thick lines.)#

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***by drowning himself while apparently believing himself to be ‘called’.

****(or inner religious experience)

#(See [next entry,] 347)

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