Vaslav Nijinsky was possibly the greatest dancer who ever lived. His leaps were reportedly unbelievable - he could jump so high that he could cross his feet TEN TIMES back and forth before landing. He was diagnosed with schizophrenia at age 29 and was hospitalised off and on for the rest of his life. He was at times delusional, sometimes catatonic and exhibited a sort pf word-salad thought disorder. He was treated by several of the big name psychiatrists of the time, including Adler and Manfred Bleuler and his wife apparently consulted with both Freud and Jung. In his diary he wrote: "I love life and want to live, to cry but cannot -- I feel such a pain in my soul -- a pain which frightens me. My soul is ill. My soul, not my mind. The doctors do not understand my illness." The diary entry was signed "God and Nijinsky"