Schizophrenia: The Bearded Lady Disease Volume One

by J. Michael Mahoney

Man has long searched for the cause and meaning of mental illness. This book attempts to answer those questions. The author/compiler has spent 36 years investigating these problems and his conclusion is that severe unconscious bisexual conflict and confusion lie at the root of all mental illness, as difficult to comprehend as this idea may be. The book itself consists of 639 quotations, from a variety of sources, all of which point to the unshakable truth of this hypothesis. This is a fixed law of nature, unassailable and constantly operative in every case. No other species but man is afflicted with mental illness because no other species has either the intellectual power to sexual feelings nor the motivation to do so. The disease we call "schizophrenia" is but an arbitrary name, which is used to designate the end-stage of a process beginning with a slight neurosis. The more severe the bisexual conflict and confusion in the individual, the more severe the degree of the mental illness which is experienced. Several other investigators in the past have reached this same conclusion, but unfortunately their wisdom went largely unheeded. Hopefully this book will remedy that ill-advised neglect.

700 pages, Paperback

First published November 19, 2003

Reviews

[Mills]

What even is this fuckery?

[Paige McLoughlin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ok, I saw this in a book store in 2003 I didn't dare pick it up. I was a schizophrenic which I am fairly open about. However, I was a deeply closeted trans girl and at the time and I couldn't handle the thought. I am now a year out of the closet as a trans girl and I thought I would pick it up. It has a lot of anecdotal cases of gender fluidity among schizophrenic patients and some dubious Freudian analysis attached to it. The link between schizophrenia (or autism for that matter) and transgender identification is suggestive. Statistically, trans men and women are overrepresented in schizophrenic and autistic populations which is suggestive but I don't buy the Freudian stuff. Interesting that the author picked up on this thread.

[Leila · Rating 3 out of 5]

FANTASTIC cover art (designed by my friend Judith) and full of interesting quotes, but really, there's so little text tying together the citations that I'm not sure the author has the right to call himself an author. It's more of an annotated bibliography.

[Thomas-ian Nadeau · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a work of pure ensensitive genius. Mahoney put together a ton of versus and quotes to proof that Schizophrenia is the negation of homosexuality or something like that...

Pure stupidity but pure genius to keep up with freudian times when psychiatry was in the dark ages... But I say I have Schizophrenia and I have a little of these experiences spoken about in the book but people without Schizophrenia do also as many are bisexual and I say it's a good read because it's halarious at some points and reminds when I was a youth and really admired the series of movies of hannibal lecter such as Silence of the lambs, hannibal, and red dragon... But now that we are in modern times this book challendges modern day pyschiatry and says that Schizophrenia and other mental illness is sheer bisexual conflict where one can not come to terms with who they are as a sexually being without before being confronted fully with it on a homosexuak bases...

I finish by saying that in these modern ages of pyschiatry we all know mental illnesses is a biologically based brain disorder and is not truely what Mahoney speaks of as thruth or fact...

[Collin Shea]

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[LaLaLa · Rating 3 out of 5]