While driving around the streets of Poughkeepsie, New York, Larry Fox struck a pedestrian whom he believed to be an alien from another planet. After a car chase, Mr. Fox was captured by the police. He was then taken to a special doctor who diagnosed him as suffering from paranoid schizophrenia with homicidal ideation. In Journey to Reality, Larry Fox describes how he spent four months in psychiatric wards and the county jail, and then pled not responsible by reason of mental disease or defect. After spending time in a maximum security state psychiatric hospital and then in a civil hospital, he was finally released on an order of conditions. Mr. Fox explains how he and his family determined that his psychiatric condition was in fact nothing more than multiple chemical sensitivities.
