Schizophrenia or Possession ? Springer Science+Business Media New York 2012 Abstract Schizophrenia is typically a life-long condition characterized by acute symp- tom exacerbations and widely varying degrees of functional disability. Some of its symptoms, such as delusions and hallucinations, produce great subjective psychological pain. The most common delusion types are as follows: ‘‘My feelings and movements are controlled by others in a certain way’’ and ‘‘They put thoughts in my head that are not mine.’’ Hallucinatory experiences are generally voices talking to the patient or among themselves. Hallucinations are a cardinal positive symptom of schizophrenia which deserves careful study in the hope it will give information about the pathophysiology of the disorder. We thought that many so-called hallucinations in schizophrenia are really illu- sions related to a real environmental stimulus. One approach to this hallucination problem is to consider the possibility of a dem...
Fritz Haber: The Damned Scientist** Magda Dunikowska* and Ludwik Turko* Dedicated to the Fritz Haber Institute, Berlin, on the occasion of its 100th anniversary ammonia · poison gas · Haber, Fritz · history of science A Portrait and a Monograph The even row of portrait photographs of Lower Silesian Nobel Prize winners displayed on the wall of the club Salon S´la˛ ski, or Silesian Salon, one of the city- s magic places, right across the street from the Baroque main building of the Wrocław University , is rather unorthodox as far as the standards of picture exhibitions go. Two of the laureates observe the coy interior of the club having assumed postures that are somewhat unusual for respectable learned men: hanging upside down. One of the two is Philipp Lenard, the cathode ray discoverer who subsequently developed the conception of creative “Aryan physics ” as opposed to secondary and mendacious “Jewish physics”. The other one is Fritz Haber, who invented a method for synthesizing a...