Dementia Praecox Fitzgerald

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After Zelda Fitzgerald was diagnosed with schizophrenia and hospitalized, she wrote to Scott that if she were released, “We shall have all the children we can, and call them Dementia Praecox Fitzgerald–Dear, how gruesome!”

Source: Modernism on File: Writers, Artists, and the FBI 1920-1950

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