Memorable Quotes from Barton Heyman
3 quotesExploring Abnormal Strength in Crisis Situations
Dr. Klein
She's heavily sedated. She'll probably sleep through tomorrow.
Chris
What was going on in there? How could she fly off the bed like that?
Dr. Klein
Pathological states can induce abnormal strength. Accelerated motor performance. Now, for example, say a 90 pound woman sees her child pinned under the wheel of a truck. Runs out and lifts the wheels a half a foot up off the ground - you've heard the story - same thing here. Same principle, I mean.
Chris
So what's wrong with her?
Dr. Klein
We still think the temporal lobe.
Chris
Oh what are you talking about, for Christ's sakes? Did you see her or not? She's acting like she's fucking out of her mind, psychotic, like a... split personality or ...
Dr. Klein
There haven't been more than a hundred authentic cases of so-called ], Mrs. MacNeil. Now I know the temptation is to leap to psychiatry. But any reasonable psychiatrist would exhaust the ] possibilities first.
[[w:Dissociative identity disorder|split personality; [w:somatic|somatic]
Chris
So, what's next?
Dr. Klein
A ], I would think. Pin down that lesion. It will involve another spinal.
[[w:Pneumoencephalography|pneumoencephalogram]
Chris
Oh, Christ!
Dr. Klein
What we missed in the ] and the ] could conceivably turn up there. At least, it would eliminate certain other possibilities.
[[w:Electroencephalography|EEG; [w:Angiography|arteriograms]
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Understanding Brain Disturbances and Hallucinations
Dr. Klein
It's a symptom of a type of disturbance in the chemical-electrical activity of the brain. In the case of your daughter, in the temporal lobe - it's up here - in the lateral part of the brain. It's rare, but it does cause bizarre hallucinations and usually just before a convulsion...the shaking of the bed. It's doubtless due to muscular spasms.
Chris
Oh no. No, no. That was not a spasm. Look. I got on the bed. The whole bed was thumping and rising off the floor and shaking - the whole thing, with me on it!
Dr. Klein
Mrs. MacNeil, the problem with your daughter is not her bed, it's her brain.
Chris
So, uhm, what causes this...?
Dr. Klein
A lesion. A ] in the ]. It's a kind of seizure disorder.
[[w:lesion|lesion; [w:temporal lobe|temporal lobe]
Chris
Now look Doc, I really don't understand how her whole personality could change.
Dr. Klein
The temporal lobe is very common...It could last for days or even weeks. It isn't rare to find destructive, even criminal behavior.
Chris
Hey, do me a favor, will ya? Tell me somethin good.
Dr. Klein
Don't be alarmed. If it's a lesion, in a way she's fortunate. All we have to do is remove the scar.
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Inappropriate Advice on Personal Boundaries
Chris
Well give me an example, like what specifically did she say?
Dr. Klein
Specifically Mrs. MacNeil she advised me to keep my fingers away from her goddamned cunt.
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