Best Schizophrenia
German psychiatrist who developed an influential classification of mental disorders in the late 19th century, distinguishing dementia praecox from manic-depressive insanity in a system that shaped modern psychiatry.
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Modern psychiatric classification pioneer; enormous influence, though categories and degeneration ideas are partly outdated.
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Chris Frith is a British neuropsychologist known for using cognitive experiments and neuroimaging to study schizophrenia, social cognition, and conscious action. His research has examined how people distinguish self-generated actions from external events, a process called the sense of agency, and ho...
Why this score?
Schizophrenia, agency, and social cognition research are respected and influential.
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Spider is a 2002 psychological-thriller film directed by David Cronenberg and adapted from Patrick McGrath's novel. Ralph Fiennes plays Dennis Cleg, a mentally disturbed man who returns to a halfway house in London's East End and tries to reconstruct memories of his childhood. The film presents his...
