Schizophrenia
The book “A Beautiful Mind” and the film of the same name are about the life of John Forbes Nash, an American mathematician and Nobel Prize winner who has schizophrenia. The movie “The Soloist” is based on the life of Nathaniel Ayers, a gifted musician who dropped out of the Julliard School, in New York City after the symptoms of schizophrenia began. He later became homeless in Los Angeles, California, in the notorious Skid Row section. One of the children of Dr. Albert Einstein was diagnosed with schizophrenia, and lived his life in a hospital.  The sister of Dr Eugen Bleuler was admitted to a Zurich hospital with a catatonic illness . Dr Bleuler would sometime after be the director of the same hospital where he diagnosed his sister with schizophrenia.