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What if Jim Jones Was a Skitzophrenic?
Most psychologists who have looked at the information on jim jones from afar don't think he could have been a skitzophrenic is that he was simply too functional for too long. There are some scholars who have studied shamanism in traditional societies, and who have suggested that shamans exhibit signs of scitophrenia. In most cases, potential shamens are identified sometime around puberty or early adult hood,. And schitzophrenia tends to begin manifesting during puberty or early adulthood. Except in these societies, their symptoms are not medicalized.