In No System Which Shows Mental Characteristics

If A Man Achieves Or Suffers Change In Premises Which Are Deeply Embedded In His Mind, He Will Surely Find That The Results Of That Change Will Ramify Throughout His Whole Universe.

Schizophrenia --its Nature, Etiology, And The Kind Of Therapy To Use For It--remains One Of The Most Puzzling Of The Mental Illnesses. The Theory Of Schizophrenia Presented Here Is Based On Communications Analysis, And Specifically On The Theory Of Logical Types. From This Theory And From Observations Of Schizophrenic Patients Is Derived A Description, And The Necessary Conditions For, A Situation Called The "double Bind"--a Situation In Which No Matter What A Person Does, He "can't Win." It Is Hypothesized That A Person Caught In The Double Bind May Develop Schizophrenic Symptoms

If It Were Possible Adequately To Present The Whole Of A Culture, Stressing Every Aspect Exactly As Appears In The Culture Itself, No Single Detail Would Appear Bizarre Or Strange Or Arbitrary To The Reader, But Rather The Details Would All Appear Natural And Reasonable As They Do To The Natives Who Have Lived All Their Lives Within The Culture.

Some Tools Of Thought Are So Blunt That They Are Almost Useless; Others Are So Sharp That They Are Dangerous. But The Wise Man Will Have The Use Of Both Kinds.

Let's Not Pretend That Mental Phenomena Can Be Mapped On To The Characteristics Of Billiard Balls.