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Schizophrenia the Bearded Lady Disease Volume Schizophrenia The Bearded Lady Disease Volume Two Compiled By: J. Michael Mahoney AuthorHouse™ 1663 Liberty Drive Bloomington, IN 47403 www.authorhouse.com Phone: 1-800-839-8640 © 2012 for BeardedLady LLC. All rights reserved. www.Schizophrenia-TheBeardedLadyDisease.com No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author. First published by AuthorHouse 03/06/2012 ISBN: 978-1-4490-7199-8 (e) ISBN: 978-1-4490-7201-8 (sc) ISBN: 978-1-4490-7200-1 (hc) Library of Congress Control Number: 200296470 This book is printed on acid-free paper. Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reÀ ect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them. Prologue The month of November 1895 marks an important time in the history of my life and in particular in my own ideas of the possible shaping of my future. I remember the period distinctly; it coincided with a number of beautiful autumn days when there was a heavy morning mist on the Elbe. During that time the signs of a transformation into a woman became so marked on my body, that I could no longer ignore the imminent goal at which the whole development was aiming. In the immediately preceding nights my male sexual organ might actually have been retracted had I not resolutely set my will against it, still following the stirring of my sense of manly honour, so near completion was the miracle. Soul-voluptuousness had become so strong that I myself received the impression of a female body, first on my arms and hands, later on my legs, bosom, buttocks and other parts of my body. I will discuss details in the next chapter. Several days' observations of these events sufficed to change the direction of my will completely. Until then I still considered it possible that, should my life not have fallen victim to one of the innumerable menacing miracles before, it would eventually be necessary for me to end it by suicide; apart from suicide the only possibility appeared to be some other horrible end for me, of a kind unknown among human beings. But now I could see beyond doubt that the Order of the World imperiously demanded my unmanning, whether I personally liked it or not, and that therefore it was common sense that nothing was left to me but reconcile myself to the thought of being transformed into a woman. Nothing of course could be envisaged as a further consequence of unmanning but fertilization by divine rays for the purpose of creating new human beings. [ Daniel Paul Schreber, Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, WM Dawson & Sons Ltd., London, 1955, pp. 147-148 * Translated, Edited, with Introduction, Notes and Dis- cussion by Ida Macalpine, M.D., and Richard A. Hunter, M.D., MRCP, DPM ] A New Scientific truth does not triumph By convincing its opponents, But rather because its opponents die, And a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. --- Max (Karl Ernst) Planck, 1858-1947, German physicist. About The Book Mankind has long searched for the cause and meaning of madness. The 773 Quotations/Comments in these studies (Volumes One and Two), each followed by an explanatory comment, point inexorably to the factor of unconscious bisexual conflict and gender confusion as forming the basic etiological role in all functional mental illness, including schizophrenia. Since madness has been the instigator of so much suffering and destruction in the world throughout the ages it is vitally important to uncover its mechanisms, for without doing so it will never be possible to eradicate it. Volume Two provides additional numerous docu- mented case histories and theoretical constructs which clearly illuminate the origins of madness. Furthermore, it is interesting and challenging reading and an excellent source for future research. Daniel Paul Schreber, who has often been called psychiatry’s most famous patient, wrote in his Memoirs of My Nervous Illness that "I would like to meet the man who, faced with the choice of either becoming a demented human being in male habitus or a spirited woman, would not prefer the latter. Such and only such is the issue for me." In this brief observation, Dr. Schreber, a prominent German jurist in the late 1800’s before his severe psychosis made it necessary for him to be institutionalized, unearthed the answer to a puzzle which has bedeviled mankind since its beginning, namely, What is it that causes a person to become mentally ill? It is doubtful Dr. Schreber realized that the profound truth contained in his observation about the cause of mental illness in men applies equally to women by simply reversing the gender roles in his statement. J. Michael Mahoney "Schreber describes what happened to him and in him from the beginning of his illness, including two years during which he was so violent and noisy that - to his great indignation - he had to be confined to a padded cell at night, be accompanied by three attendants in the Asylum's garden, and forcibly fed; when he was negativistic, withdrawn, mute and immobile for long periods, impulsive, repeatedly attempted suicide, massively hallucinated and deluded about his own body and his surroundings, suffered from unbearable insomnia, tortured by compulsive acting and obsessive thinking. We follow the intense struggle with his delusions, his first glimpses of insight, and how he slowly resumed contact with 'the outside world.' Finally we see a transvestite emerge from this state of 'acute hallucinatory insanity,' with a complicated system of delusions side by side with unimpaired capacity for clear and logical reasoning, which allowed him to play a decisive part in having his tutelage rescinded. With great acuity and keen logic he argued 'right from wrong premises' (Locke, 1690), so that as Dr. Weber said in court, 'little would be noticeable' of his insanity 'to an observer not informed of his total state.' So manifold were the symptoms he displayed at one time or another that almost the whole symptomatology of the entire field of psychiatric abnormality is described. Comparison with the items listed in a current textbook on psychiatry (Henderson and Gillespie, 1951) in the chapter on 'Symptomatology,' allowed us to tick off nearly all as touched on in the Memoirs." [ Daniel Paul Schreber, Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, Translated. Edited, with Introduction, Notes and Dis- cussion by Ida Macalpine, M.D. and Richard A. Hunter, M.D., MRCP, DPM, WM. Dawson & Sons Ltd. London, 1955, pp. 7, 8. ] "To write such a frank autobiographical account re- quired Judge Schreber's intellect, his determination to grapple with his madness, his training in logical thinking, his inborn quest for truth, his integrity, absolute frankness, and finally admirable courage in laying his innermost thoughts and feelings bare before other people, knowing that they thought him mad." [ Ibid., p. 7. ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note: Volume Two of "Schizophrenia - The Bearded Lady Disease", is essentially the paper record of all the varied and numerous items pertaining to the continuing study of this emotionally and physically devastating mental illness, which had initially been uploaded to the website www.Schizophrenia-TheBeardedLadyDisease.com (or) www.BeardedLady.com and is being published in book form to accommodate all those who, like the author/compiler, prefer to read their information in this manner rather than by doing so online. Dedication To the mentally ill of all ages Nothing before had ever made me thoroughly real- ize, though I had read various scientific books, that science consists in grouping facts so that general laws or conclusions may be drawn from them. – Charles Darwin, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin It's just that we don't understand what's the matter ... Why did we lose peace and love and health, one after the other? If we knew, if there was anybody to tell us, I believe we could try. I'd try so hard. – F. Scott Fitzgerald, One Trip Abroad It is only ideas of such colossal proportions that a symbol for them cannot be created that are vague and intangible and brooding, incomprehensible and fearful, that produce madness. The very fact that a thing – anything – can be fitted into a meaning built up of words small, black words that can be written with one hand and the stub of a pencil means that it is not big enough to be overwhelming. It is the vast, formless, unknown and unknowable things that we fear. Anything which can be brought to a common point – a focus within our understanding – can be dealt with. – Lara Jefferson, These Are My Sisters Sexual identity guarantees our psychic unity. – Julia Kristeva, psycho-analyst About the Author Upon graduation from college in 1952, J. Michael Mahoney 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 the author 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 these two volumes. He now lives in Northern California and has three children and five grandchildren.
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