Psychiatric Interview No. 18: Evaluation for Diagnosis (1967)

★★★★★ · Interesting. · JayKay49 · 2019-03-23

My take? Catatonic schizophrenia. He has little or no insight. I don't believe his limited responses are defense oriented - they are probably catatonic dysphasia. His references to sitting and standing funny probably relate to how others reacted to him when this catatonia came on. He really cannot describe it because it is not a conscious deliberate thing. Catatonia in this case is like a postural version of auditory hallucinations - he's aware of it but not sure what it is. (Oh..wait...I had not looked at the topic; but I was right!) He could be an actor working for the medical school (they…

★★★★★ · This is an actor for educational purposes. · Tcule · 2019-11-07

Please re-read creator and purpose of the video. This is for psychology department made by the theater department.

★★★★★ · I'm sorry for this brilliant and poor guy · Maciel Carvalho · 2025-11-25

I don't think there's something abnormal about him You can see by the way he expresses himself and by the intelligent answers he provides that he's just a frightened man who was strugling with institutional violence at that time, supposely for being a homossexual. He told many times in the video that people disliked him because the way he speaks and by the way he moves and behaves whem he's playing the piano. He also talks his daddy hates him, what we may interpret as he had a difficult relationship and disapproval of his own father To me he seems to be a very brillant and handome man who was…

★★★★ · Young man wiith very delayed verbal responses · flowerbot · 2022-02-03

Interesting interview. I imagine that this person would have been frequently misunderstood as being stubborn or slow witted due to his delayed resposes and slow, deliberate speech. I disagree with the the comments suggesting that this is an actor, especially after viewing several other of the interviews from this series. I think there are very few actors t hat could pull off a performance like this. All of these interviews occurred long before HIPAA was put into place and they probably could not be produced today, even if the patients gave their permission for filming and sharing the films…

He was Autistic and most likely Gay · jimmburrell · 2025-04-15

The young man was autistic. In my 42 years in education and music therapy, this young man was told her was not exhibiting “normal” behaviors. Had had no evidence of SIB - self-injurious-behaviors - no scars and no scratches. Some of the previous reviews also agree with this. In 1967, autism was not even talked about, but schizophrenia was. This young man has the classic behaviors of a highly intelligent autistic savant. His speech was extremely articulate. His experience with music, especially the piano is something that many high functioning autistic people demonstrate. What a f-ing sad…