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 […]
Posted: Friday, April 17th, 2026 Research from Denmark has confirmed the findings of previous studies that there is a connection between cannabis use and schizophrenia and has underlined the need for extreme caution when considering legalisation of cannabis use. Led by Danish researchers, this was a large study of over 60,000 participants diagnosed with cannabis use disorder using data from […]
