Thus, as Virginia Woolf has it, referring to the Bloomsbury group and postimpressionism, “On or about December 1910 human nature changed.” For one, they share a roughly parallel history: schizophrenia was vaguely discerned at the very earliest around the late 18th or early 19th century, and was only specifically diagnosed at about the time of the industrialization of the western world. He's less interested in the opposite-that is, he imagines schizophrenics as modernists, though not necessarily modernists as schizophrenics-but he finds a rich and fascinating correspondence nonetheless. Sass, a clinical psychologist at Rutgers, uses modernism as a way of illuminating the puzzling symptoms of schizophrenia. In his 1992 book Madness and Modernism: Insanity in the Light of Modern Art, Literature, and Thought, Louis A. Jeremiah Zagar, U.S., International Film Circuit
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