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Quote #10
"[…] Andrews suffered no delusions, no false perceptions, no hallucinations, but the primary illness of separation of thinking from feeling. He understood the nature of his acts, and that they were prohibited, and that he was subject to punishment. […] And in his own seclusive world it seemed to him just as right to kill his mother as to kill an animal or fly." (4.219)
This is the psychiatrist's diagnosis of Lowell Lee Andrews, the boy who killed his family and seemed completely indifferent about it. The diagnosis was "simple schizophrenia (no delusions or hallucinations)." Later, we learn that one of the psychiatrists also thought that Perry suffered from schizophrenia, but not the simple type—paranoid schizophrenia, based on Perry's belief that everyone was out to ruin him.