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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What refers to the California law code for temporary, involuntary psychiatric commitment of individuals who present a danger to themselves or others?

2. How long did the jurors deliberate on the verdict of the Malcoum Tate murder before delivering a verdict for the accused?

3. When was Malcoum Tate diagnosed with schizophrenia?

4. When was Camp Wish established?

5. What term refers to a psychiatric disorder in which a person holds a delusion that a friend or family member has been replaced by an identical impostor?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the criteria for a diagnosis of schizophrenia?

2. What does NIMH refer to and when was it formed?

3. Who was Malcoum Tate and why does the author discuss him in the book?

4. How does the author describe the different perceptions of depression and schizophrenia in the book?

5. How does the author describe the boy called Stuart at Camp Wish?

6. What is the DSM and why is it important?

7. Who was John Nash and why is he mentioned in the book?

8. When was the term "schizophrenia" coined and what are its root words?

9. What was the first diagnosis the author received? How was she treated?

10. Why does the author support diagnosis in mental illness?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the correlations between art, creativity, genius, and mental illness. What are examples given by the author for artists who suffered from mental illness? How did those artists benefit from mental illness? How did they suffer from it?

Essay Topic 2

How do schizophrenia and bipolar disorder differ? How are they similar? What led to the author's diagnosis of each and what changed those diagnoses? How do the stigmas of these disorders relate?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the narrative style and structure of The Collected Schizophrenias. How conversational is the narrative? How does it change from one essay to the next? How are the essays ordered, and why are they ordered this way?

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