Posted: Thursday, October 15th, 2026 When Emil Kraepelin first described schizophrenia in 1898 he called it “dementia praecox” or premature dementia because he thought that it involved a progressive deterioration of the patient’s functioning over time. This view persisted in medicine generally for many years into the 20th century. We now know that this is not the case and that […]
Posted: Thursday, September 17th, 2026 Autumn sees the anniversary of the death in 1941 of the great Canadian poet Émile Nelligan who lived with schizophrenia. Born in December 1879 in Montreal, Canada, Émile Nelligan was a Quebec poet and writer who was considered by some scholars to be the foremost French Canadian poet of his time. He was said to […]
Posted: Monday, August 24th, 2026 The Royal Academy of Arts in London is currently hosting a highly acclaimed exhibition of over 100 works by the famous Victorian artist Richard Dadd. Called Richard Dadd: Beyond Bedlam this major exhibition will, we think, prove to be the most significant of his work for over half a century. Dadd suffered from paranoid schizophrenia […]
Posted: Monday, July 20th, 2026 Recent research published in both the mainstream press and the academic literature has strongly indicated that people with schizophrenia are at an increased risk of death from heat-related illness during heat waves and other periods of excessive hot weather. And, with another heat wave now being experienced in the UK people living with schizophrenia should […]
Posted: Wednesday, June 17th, 2026 Schizophrenia has been around for a long time. References to people who were clearly insane appear in classical writings and the Bible, for instance in Mark 5 we hear of the Gerasene Demoniac who, “All day and all night among the tombs and in the mountains he would howl and gash himself with stones”. In […]
