In 1934 on the initiative of Sovereign Grand Commander Melvin M. Johnson, the Masons set up the Scottish Rite Committee on Research in Dementia Praecox (what we now call 'schizophrenia').
Oh hey, I know one of the sources of this narrative. For about thirty years Kay Redfield Jamison has been one of the biggest proponents of a relationship between artistic genius and manic-depression.
Kay Jamison coauthored the standard text for manic-depression with Frederick Goodwin in 1990, and in 1993 she wrote Touched with Fire, where she argues many famous artists had the illness. In '95 she came out herself as a sufferer in An Unquiet Mind.
Mar 29, 2021 • 70 tweets • 25 min read
Back in December, I ran across an old ad for a mental health org I'd never heard of, the American Mental Health Fund. This is from 1988:
If you saw my previous thread, you'll understand why whenever I see a nonprofit group talking about mental illness, I start looking for drug company involvement.
