Schizophrenic states of mind seem to deny either access or empathy. What does it mean to know how someone else feels?

A Cambodian woman is paralysed just like her husband, but she has not had a stroke. She is in a grey region of "conversion disorders"

Mick, John and Leonard are all chronic alcoholics. Are they just "addictive personalities," or can they make up their own minds?

Psychiatric drugs restored Nia's sanity and destroyed her beauty, and she doesn't mind