Sebastian Faulks on his glimpse of madness: ‘I was lost in a shadowland’ - The Times, August 2025

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Sebastian Faulks on his glimpse of madness: ‘I was lost in a shadowland’

A terrifying episode during the author’s student years ‘severed his link’ with reality — and fuels his mission to understand psychosis and schizophrenia

Meanwhile, some patterns in the baffling symptoms of what is now known as schizophrenia were also being observed by doctors throughout Europe. Outstanding among these observers was the German Emil Kraepelin, who believed that many severe “mental” illnesses had a neurological base: in other words, that the patients’ bizarre behaviour and beliefs were not a response to the events of their lives but to a problem in the brain tissue.

 

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Seems to me like there is absolutely nothing about the causes of schizofrenia or psychosis in general.

All it shows is the recklessness and lack of scientific rigour in the medical community at large.