Michael Fitzgerald

• MD, FRCPSYCH, MRCS (ENG), M.INSTUT.ANAL
• First Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Trinity College Dublin

Diane Arbus was a major and original photographer who ended her life in suicide. She was suffering from severe depression on and off throughout her life. There was a strong history of family depression. She was a typical artistic personality (Fitzgerald, 2021) with identity diffusion, perversity, voyeurism and scopophilia. She came from a wealthy f...

Hogarth was one of the great satirists. He was an early significant English painter. He was hyperkinetic, perverse and sadistic. He was a contradictory artist. He was a super-egoish/moral man who warned people about destructive behaviour including alcoholism and gambling. He was a social reformer. He held a mirror up to society. He focused on the s...

ResearchGate Academia Errol Flynn was a great swashbuckling actor. He was a 'Don Juan' and a 'confessed amorist', according to the publicity for his autobiography called, My Wicked Wicked Ways (1961). He was massively novelty-seeking and sensation-seeking, (Fitzgerald, 2008). He was attracted to young girls and was charged with statutory rape. He w...

ResearchGate Academia Agnes Martin was a major American female abstract artist close to minimalism. She had autism and schizophrenia (Fitzgerald, 2014). This connection was first suggested by Boswell (2018). Laing (2015) described her grids as 'horizontal and vertical lines drawn meticulously'. Laing (2015) stated that she painted with her 'back to...

ResearchGate Academia Frank Chichester was one of the world's greatest adventurers and solo sailors. He was a novelty-seeker and sensation-seeker, (Fitzgerald, 2008). He lived his life on the edge and at extreme limits. He operated at the limit of human endurance. He was happy in his own company and hyperkinetic. Background:

ResearchGate Academia Tom Thompson was one of the most famous Canadian painters of genius. Details of his life are sketchy, making a firm diagnosis very difficult. He was enigmatic and mysterious. There's a great deal of speculative material about him, but hard family and personal facts are limited. He was an autistic loner, often lived alone, for...

Rachel Carson was a famous ecologist and nature writer specialist in climate change. Background:

Douglas Bader was the most famous fighter pilot of the Second World war, because he flew without legs. He was brilliant and a narcissist (APA, 2013). He was selfish, egocentric, rebellious, anti-authority, loved and hated because of his narcissism. He was obsessed with Moi. He was extremely exhibitionistic and had a sense of entitlement. He always...

Balzac was a great French novelist, with a personality as complex as Marcel Proust, (Fitzgerald, 2021). Balzac had a huge impact on novel writing after him. He was the father of the modern novel and all novelists, according to Henry James. He was a compulsive writer, journalist and novelist. He was a Walter Mitty-type figure. He was a business gamb...

Existing for him meant painting. This was pretty much his total interest, which he did for 364 days a year and five nights a week. The canvas and himself were almost one. He hyper focused and almost merged with the canvas. He was a totally singular painter. He had obsessive-compulsive traits. Background and childhood:

Irish Families Under Stress – Volume 1 Psychosocial studies in Irish Child Psychiatry(Focuses on Behaviour Problems in Children including Traveller Children and Factors Associated with Behaviour Problems in Children).

Irish Families Under Stress

Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) activity in fusion devices is typically analyzed by examining time-frequency spectrograms obtained from various diagnostics. MHD modes often co-exist with various types of noise and complex patterns generated by other events like pellet injection or active diagnostics. Traditionally, identifying MHD modes has been a manual...

Critical evaluation of the concept of autistic creativity.

Resolving the Gaps and Conflicts that prevent Theoretical Models of Science from being Practical and Executable.

'Henry Higgins and George Bernard Shaw were on the autism spectrum. Michael Fitzgerald Former Professor of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Trinity College, Dublin 2, Eire

Nietzsche was a genius and a hugely important philosopher-one of the greatest. He was an introvert and used 'self-observation' to develop his philosophy (Hayman, 1995). Nietzsche gave 'short shrift to self-pity and the ostentatious display of compassion' (Cate, 2003). His sister, after his death, rewrote and altered some of his work to make it conf...