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Dan and Sue Hanson — Room for J: One Family's Struggle with Schizophrenia

On Being with Krista Tippett
On Being with Krista Tippett
Episode • May 4, 2006 • 53m

Dan and Sue Hanson — Room for J: One Family's Struggle with Schizophrenia

Joel Hanson has schizophrenia and believes he is God. His parents reflect on living with their son and how they have learned to see mental illness, normalcy, and religion differently. Is there room in our culture to consider a schizophrenic personality as another form of human difference and diversity?