A Tourette’s patient cycled weekly between drug-mediated and disorder selves

Evidence

Oliver Sacks, Awakenings (New York: Harper Perennial, 1973), 234. See also The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat, which describes how Ray “has achieved what Nietzsche liked to call ‘The Great Health’ ” (101), finding a way of using his drug, Haldol, that leaves just enough room for “his Tourette’s.” During the week, he is his “Haldol self,” while, during the weekend, he is his “Tourette’s self.” — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded, 4599

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘Great Health’ and double-self structure resonates with the ontology of plasticity and self-fashioning Malabou develops throughout. — connects to: SSRIs affect the personality, crossing from disease to lifestyle — Alain Ehrenberg, The Weariness of the Self: Diagnosing…, 868
• SHARE: Sacks case of Ray cycling Haldol self vs Tourette’s self by week/weekend is a striking neurologically-divergent identity nugget.