Logic Can Often Be Reversed, But The

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

Yes, Metaphor. That's How The Whole Fabric Of Mental Interconnections Holds Together. Metaphor Is Right At The Bottom Of Being Alive.

Our Initial Sensory Data Are Always "first Derivatives," Statements About Differences Which Exist Among External Objects Or Statements About Changes Which Occur Either In Them Or In Our Relationship To Them. Objects And Circumstances Which Remain Absolutely Constant Relative To The Observer, Unchanged Either By His Own Movement Or By External Events, Are In General Difficult And Perhaps Always Impossible To Perceive. What We Perceive Easily Is Difference And Change And Difference Is A Relationship.

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.

Somebody Was Saying To Picasso That He Ought To Make Pictures Of Things The Way They Are-objective Pictures. He Mumbled That He Wasn't Quite Sure What That Would Be. The Person Who Was Bullying Him Produced A Photograph Of His Wife From His Wallet And Said, "there, You See, That Is A Picture Of How She Really Is." Picasso Looked At It And Said, "she Is Rather Small, Isn't She? And Flat?"