{"id":111398,"date":"2023-08-24T17:32:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T21:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=111398"},"modified":"2023-08-25T09:27:53","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T13:27:53","slug":"oppenheimer-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/oppenheimer-mental-health\/","title":{"rendered":"J. Robert Oppenheimer&#8217;s Mental Health Struggles in Early Life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>How did J. Robert Oppenheimer struggle with mental health? Was he ever diagnosed with specific conditions?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In <em>American Prometheus<\/em>, biographers Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin provide an in-depth look into the life of the man best known for his work on developing the atomic bomb. The authors discuss how J. Robert Oppenheimer\u2019s adolescent years were marked by emotional instability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more to learn about Oppenheimer\u2019s mental health struggles in his youth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-adolescent-emotional-instability\">Adolescent Emotional Instability<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Bird and Sherwin, Oppenheimer\u2019s mental health suffered during his adolescence and early adulthood. Specifically, they contend that Oppenheimer dealt with chronic depression and emotional breakdowns, only to recover in his mid-20s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They note that, according to Oppenheimer\u2019s friend and Harvard University classmate Paul Horgan, Oppenheimer was prone to multiday depressive episodes at Harvard. During these episodes, he became increasingly reclusive and unavailable to even his closest friends. This emotional volatility, Bird and Sherwin argue, grew even worse during Oppenheimer\u2019s graduate studies at the University of Cambridge in 1925. While there, Oppenheimer allegedly attempted to poison his tutor, whom he was upset with, by leaving a poisoned apple on his desk\u2014an allegation that would nearly result in Oppenheimer\u2019s expulsion from Cambridge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Shortform note: According to the US National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), Oppenheimer\u2019s experience of adolescent depression isn\u2019t unusual. The NIMH reports that depressive episodes like those experienced by Oppenheimer are significantly more common in adolescence\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nimh.nih.gov\/health\/statistics\/major-depression#:~:text=Prevalence%20of%20Major%20Depressive%20Episode%20Among%20Adolescents,-Figure%202%20shows&amp;text=An%20estimated%205.0%20million%20adolescents,population%20aged%2012%20to%2017.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">20% of US adolescents experienced a major depressive episode in 2021<\/a>, compared to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nimh.nih.gov\/health\/statistics\/major-depression#:~:text=disorders%2C%20or%20medication.-,Prevalence%20of%20Major%20Depressive%20Episode%20Among%20Adults,8.3%25%20of%20all%20U.S.%20adults.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">8% of US adults<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As Bird and Sherwin relate, Oppenheimer was allowed to remain a student at Cambridge on the condition that he undergo psychoanalysis (a form of therapy that seeks to uncover and address the unconscious roots of our behavior). However, although Oppenheimer was diagnosed with dementia praecox\u2014what\u2019s now known as schizophrenia\u2014the psychoanalysis proved unhelpful. Instead, Bird and Sherwin write, Oppenheimer cited existentialist literature and its emphasis on introspection as the catalyst for improving his mental health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Shortform note: The use of psychoanalytic therapy to treat schizophrenia has aged poorly, as psychiatrists now contend that <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/10.1177\/00030651010490012001\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">psychoanalysis is generally ineffective for schizophrenia<\/a>. According to experts, this may be because <a href=\"https:\/\/hms.harvard.edu\/news\/biological-origin-schizophrenia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">schizophrenia has a biological and neurological component<\/a>, meaning that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mayoclinic.org\/diseases-conditions\/schizophrenia\/diagnosis-treatment\/drc-20354449#:~:text=in%20schizophrenia%20treatment.-,Medications,affecting%20the%20brain%20neurotransmitter%20dopamine.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">it requires medicine to effectively treat its symptoms<\/a>. The fact that Oppenheimer recovered without medication also suggests that his diagnosis may not have been accurate in the first place.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bird and Sherwin write that, after Oppenheimer\u2019s mental health improved, he enjoyed great success while studying theoretical physics at The University of G\u00f6ttingen in the late 1920s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How did J. 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