Continuing investigation of distancing and distance devices has led to elaborations of the differences between the psychotic and neurotic patients' use of distance. Investigation has led to the consideration of non-metric topological constructs to replace arithmetic ones in describing this aspect of the psychotic patient's functioning.
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