:08:01
What sort of work?
:08:03
Toxic metabolite stuff.
:08:04
We're replicating Heath's
and Friedhoff's strategies...
:08:06
...trying to find maverick substances
specific to schizophrenia.
:08:09
I think we're chasing our tails.
What do you do?
:08:11
I'm a physical anthropologist.
I'm sweating out my dissertation.
:08:14
Where?
:08:15
Columbia.
:08:16
Holloway, and that bunch.
:08:19
You're kind of young for a Ph.D.,
aren't you?
:08:21
I'm 24.
:08:23
That's still pretty good.
:08:24
I didn't get my Ph.D. until I was 25.
I'm supposed to be a whiz kid.
:08:29
I'm a whiz kid, too.
:08:36
Anthropology seems to attract
good-looking women.
:08:41
So you don't think schizophrenia can be
reduced to a single etiological agent?
:08:47
I'm not even sure it's a disease.
:08:49
You think madness is simply
another state of consciousness?
:08:52
There's a body of evidence to support that.
:08:56
You don't Iike to talk
about your work, do you?
:08:59
As a rule, no.
:09:05
I'm interested in interior experiences,
especially the religious experience.
:09:09
The only reason I'm working
with schizophrenics now...
:09:12
...is the religious experience is
so significant in schizophrenia.
:09:16
There's only so much
you can do with animals.
:09:18
I worked with monkeys...
:09:19
...but they can't tell you what goes on
in their consciousness.
:09:21
You need human beings for that.
:09:23
You can't ablate human beings,
nor stick electrodes in their skulls...
:09:27
...so I have to use
a trance-inducing technique...
:09:30
...and the isolation tank seemed
the least risky.
:09:32
And I'd like to go home with you tonight.
Would that be all right with you?
:09:37
I've got a roommate.
We'll be confined to the living-room couch.
:09:42
What's wrong with the living-room couch?
:09:44
You tend to slip off a lot.
:09:47
I'm sure we'll manage.
:09:49
I'm sure we will.
:09:54
So, whenever you want to go there,
you let me know.
:09:59
How about right now?