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Was Chris McCandless Crazy? Literally?

The Adventure Blog: Was Chris McCandless Crazy? Literally?

"Writer, Craig Medred, believes that Into The Wild, both the book and the movie, fail to tell Chris McCandless' story because they ignore the fact that he may have been a schizophrenic."

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Pathfinder
No doub that McCandless was on a different path than most of us. Crazy, mentally disbtured? Who knows? Wall Street types seeing every waking minute as another opportunity to add to their bank acocunts would think most of us crazy for our pursuit of other realities.
bruno
I agree; it sounds like Medred is trying to make a diagnosis of the guy without ever having met him, and without any real qualifications to do so.
campergirl

First, Medred is an opinion columnist, not a psychologist. Second, Chris's actions might sound just plain stupid to some (probably most) but that doesn't mean he was schizophrenic. And third, Medred's article directs a lot of anger toward Krakauer, which makes me wonder if he's not a little jealous that he didn't think to write the book first.

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