Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-gvvz8 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-25T16:22:59.583Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Halloween spooks and schizophrenia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Gianetta Rands
Gianetta Rands*
Affiliation:
Camden & Islington Community Health Services NHS Trust, A8,4th Floor, Holborn Union Building, The Archway Campus, Whittington Hospital, Highgate Hill, London N19 5NF
Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button.
Type
The Columns
Information
Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 24 , Issue 3 , March 2000 , pp. 117
Creative Commons
Creative Common License - CCCreative Common License - BY
This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 2000

Sir: Many of us will have been involved with or subjected to the ritual ‘trick or treat’ routines of the 31st October. I was surprised to open the door to a group of 10-11-year-olds who had dressed up as people with schizophrenia rather than the more traditional ghosts, witches, demons, devils, grim reapers and so forth. I was informed by their accompanying parent that they had some teaching at school about mental illness. They were sufficiently intrigued and terrified by what they had heard to enact their impressions in the above way.

While there are many ways in which public awareness campaigns can be misunderstood, I had not previously come across this one. I have written to the local director of education with this feedback, but thought that the College may also like to be aware of this particular interpretation.

Submit a response

eLetters

No eLetters have been published for this article.