SCHIZOPHRENIA: The Bearded Lady Disease Volume One
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In truth, however, this work is not about Dr. Freud or Dr. Edward J. Kempf or anyone else. It is about the overwhelming amount of evidence presented in the 639 quotations contained therein, evidence which points unfailingly to the basic pathogenic role of bisexual conflict and confusion in the genesis of mental illness. As Charles Darwin wrote in his autobiography, "Nothing before had ever made me thoroughly realize, though I had read various scientific books, that science consists in grouping facts so that general laws or conclusions may be drawn from them." This book consists of a grouping of "facts", the 639 quotations, and from these facts a general law or conclusion has been drawn about the etiology of schizophrenia and of mental illness in general. This general law would be valid even without the input of Freud, for the thing speaks for itself - res ipsa loquitur. It stands or falls on its own, and whether "scholars and experts" agree or disagree with the theories of Sigmund Freud, or of any other investigator, is completely irrelevant to the truth and validity to be found in the 639 quotations in the book.
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About the Book
Man has long searched for the cause and meaning of mental illness. This book attempts to answer those questions. The author/compiler has spent 47 years investigating these problems and his conclusion is that severe unconscious bisexual conflict and confusion lie at the root of all mental illness, as difficult to comprehend as this idea may be.
The book itself consists of 639 quotations, from a variety of sources, all of which point to the unshakable truth of this hypothesis. This is a fixed law of nature, unassailable and constantly operative in every case. No other species but man is afflicted with mental illness because no other species has either the intellectual power to repress their sexual feelings nor the motivation to do so.
The disease we call “schizophrenia” is but an arbitrary name, which is used to designate the end-stage of a process beginning with a slight neurosis. The more severe the bisexual conflict and confusion in the individual, the more severe the degree of the mental illness which is experienced.
Several other investigators in the past have reached this same conclusion, but unfortunately their wisdom went largely unheeded. Hopefully this book will remedy that ill-advised neglect.
About the Author
[ All proceeds accruing to the author from sales of this book are being donated to the Found Money Fund of Idaho (FMFI) at the University of Idaho, USA. ]
Upon graduation from college in 1952, the author/compiler worked briefly for the federal government before spending four years in the Air Force. Upon discharge, he began work as a journalist, first in Ohio and then Georgia, with a two-year hiatus as a foreign correspondent in Africa.
It was while working as a journalist in Georgia that he developed his abiding interest in psychology, having been assigned to do some reporting in that field.
Fortunate circumstances enabled him to take early retirement, and he has devoted his full attention since 1966 to doing research that has led to the publication of this book.
He now lives in Northern California and has three children and five grandchildren.
About the Artist
Judith Walker was born in Philadelphia and grew up in Iowa. She studied at Sarah Lawrence College where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree with a concentration in Fine Arts in 2000. She now lives in Paris and continues to paint.