From a textbook 1950s Soviet Union clinical psychology: On paraphrenia "Fantastic and confabulatory paraphrenia are two forms quite close to each other with pronounced delusions of persecution and grandeur. In some cases, very abundant delusional formation comes to the fore with the creation of...

"Paraphrenia is a well-established concept that was ignored in the DSM-III and the DSM-III-R and may be excluded from the ICD-10. There is a need to re-establish the diagnosis, for accurate diagnostic purposes and for future research of the paranoid/delusional disorders." My 1950s texts de...

You hit on one problem here, which is over-diagnosis. I meet scores of people who calmly tell me, "Hey, I'm autistic." Yet, they aren't. Usually it's neurotic personality I see not autism. One girl gets through boyfriends like a conveyer belt, socialises around the clock and has scores of ...

It seems clear to me. It goes back to Bill Clinton proudly stating there would be no single ethnic majority in the U.S. within a few years. They then pushed the same agenda in Europe and the U.K. The idea was to encourage as much immigration as possible in order to diversify a multicultural populati...

There's a difference between conspiracy theory and cynicism. Being a cynic, I don't trust governments and do my own basic research into whatever is being pushed as gospel. So, with Covid my evaluation was it had grown into mass hysteria and drug companies were trying to capitalise on the hysteria. I...

You can go back as far as you want. Diogenes of ancient Greece appears to have been autistic. Hadrian went mad and Caligula seemed to have schizophrenia. Then there's genetics studies conducted by Germans. Most autistics have family lines that have a history of epilepsy, psychopathy, schizophrenia a...

It's very simple really. Controlled immigration is mostly O.K., more so if the immigrants are educated and prepared to integrate. One of my friends is Indian and totally integrated so speaks English fine as well as Hindi. The problem arises when you get massive immigration of people with possible cr...

In my case, I got a pretty rough ride from autism but one strange thing is from age 20 my intellect started to claw back to some uneven progress. I developed ways to take in information not by the normal person to person group teaching. It took till around 40 odd to make up for all the lost educatio...

Well, Quiet Voice's theory that all autism is caused by vaccines wouldn't be taken seriously. Some historical figures clearly had Asperger Syndrome but there were no vaccines. For example, Hans Christian Anderson who wrote The Ugly Duckling. Very autistic - his mother died in an asylum. Yet, no vacc...

It may be wise to avoid airing heated political views given the current globally heated situation. Myself I'm pro Israel and always have been but to get into arguments over geopolitical issues normally leads to nowhere. People polarise one side or the other. I do agree with Q.V. in as much as I alwa...