LARKSPUR, Calif., February 17, 2004 (PRIMEZONE) -- Schizophrenia can be a devastating and torturous disease for those it afflicts. Doctors have studied its causes and symptoms for many years. J. Michael Mahoney details his theory that all mental illness is caused by severe bisexual conflict and gender confusion in his new book, Schizophrenia: The Bearded Lady Disease (now available through 1stBooks).
To support his theory, Mahoney offers opinions from psychologists, patients and the biographers of famous schizophrenics throughout history. Containing 639 quotations from a variety of sources, the book includes an overwhelming amount of correlating research to prove his theory.
The inner tension and conflict caused by the fear of homosexuality causes severe mental illness, he writes. "Schizophrenia" is just a label for the final stages of a disease that begins as a slight neurosis. As the bisexual conflict grows stronger, so does the mental illness, he writes.
"No other species but man is afflicted with mental illness because no other species has either the intellectual power to repress their true feelings nor the motivation to do so," Mahoney writes.
Several other investigators have also noted the intimate relationship between severe bisexual conflict and mental illness, but few have offered such research based evidence. Mahoney offers this latest compilation to help those suffering from mental illness and those treating its victims to form a better understanding about what could be causing this widespread condition.
Mahoney spent his career as a journalist in Ohio and Georgia. He also worked as a foreign correspondent in Africa. While working in Georgia, he developed an interest in psychology. After his early retirement, he began research for Schizophrenia: The Bearded Lady Disease.
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