Article: Finally an explanation for the crazy cat lady in 5B: Dr. E. Fuller Torrey thinks he's found the leading cause of schizophrenia: house cats.(Interview)

People frequently mischaracterize Dr. Fuller Torrey's feelings about cats. The other day, an acquaintance gave him a present-a framed five-by-seven photograph of a white kitten sitting on a windowsill, his front paws held up like he was being robbed, a semiautomatic handgun pointed at his head. "Isn't that just wonderful?" Torrey says, looking at the photo in an office full of similar cat jokes. Still he swears no hostility toward cats. "I like them," he insists. "I actually enjoy being around them." People naturally assume Torrey would enjoy traumatizing cats because he believes that cats make us insane--that they are the leading cause of human schizophrenia. Torrey's ...

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