The author proposes a classifying principle for the various clinical aspects of schizophrenia. It is based on the hypothesis that thinking processes are carried on as the three temporal conditions of the experience (continuous, discontinuous and successive, and reversible or simultaneous) whose combination structures sane thoughts. Mental symptoms are proposed as indexed to the particular anomaly of one of those three components: disruption to the lack of simultaneity, hallucination to the lack of continuity, delusion and misinterpretation to the lack of successivity. Other symptoms (deficit, withdrawal, stereotypy) are reactional to one of the prior mechanisms.
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