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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Diagnosis" - "Toward a Pathology of the Possessed".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does "anhedonia" mean?
(a) Loss of cognitive function.
(b) Loss of interest or pleasure.
(c) Loss of blood.
(d) Fainting spell.

2. When did Malcoum Tate's murderer die?
(a) 1994.
(b) 1999.
(c) 2011.
(d) 2003.

3. When was the author diagnosed with bipolar disorder?
(a) 2001.
(b) 2009.
(c) 2011.
(d) 2003.

4. What does "RAISE" stand for?
(a) Recovery Associated with Incapacitated Stoicism Exchange.
(b) Recovery After an Initial Schizophrenia Episode.
(c) Reflective Awareness of Intelligent Standards in Education.
(d) Reduced Associative Integrated Sequence Experience.

5. Who is NAMI's director of education, training, and peer support center that is quoted by the author in "Toward a Pathology of the Possessed" (34)?
(a) Joyce Burland.
(b) Christopher Bollas.
(c) Colleen Duewel.
(d) Efrem Korngold.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author asserts that while depression is often compared to diabetes, schizophrenia is compared to what disorder?

2. Who wrote Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament?

3. At what universities did the author study for her undergraduate degree?

4. According to the NIMH, what percent of the American population is diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder?

5. What psychoanalyst defines "schizophrenic presence" as the psychodynamic experience of "being with [a schizophrenic] who has seemingly crossed over from the human world to the non-human environment" (3)?

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