Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: schizoid

  • F. Scott Fitzgerald and mental illness in Tender is the Night

    Jessica FrostBirmingham, United Kingdom In the 1930’s classic Tender is the Night,  F. Scott Fitzgerald portrays Nicole Diver as “a schizoid – a permanent eccentric.”1 However, whether the diagnosis is clinically accurate is a question that arises as the novel explores issues of mental illness and the doctor-patient relationship. The evolution of psychiatry and the…