ABSTRACT
It is the conventional wisdom in science that psychotic thought, and even thought prior to madness or at ‘The Borderline’ as I would put it, has only personal, subjective significance. It does not relate to ‘The World’, only to the inner life of the thinker. Because of this, mainstream research in psychiatry, abnormal psychology and psychopharmacology has no real interest in schizophrenia other than as an endeavour for finding things wrong with the people they study so as to ‘correct’ them. In this chapter I wish to capitalise on, and unpack, my own thinking at ‘The Borderline’ in 1979 in order to create a radical reinterpretation of the way we look at altered states of consciousness of this kind.
