ABSTRACT
As promised in Chapter 1, the qualitative material presented so far in this book has concentrated on the psychological territory near to outright insanity in the hope of validating this style of being as one which is creative, colourful and challenging and also as one which throws light even on the nature of reality itself. The relational structure of reality which is revealed to people near to schizophrenia, because of their less sceptical, less conservative and less associatively tight ways of thinking, is quite different from that entertained by neo-classical science but it is a meaningful pattern, as we have seen, that can be integrated into one’s life in functional and effective ways. The Borderliners therefore present psychological pictures which are adaptive in their own terms and hopefully convey an affirmative and constructive impression of the schizophrenia-prone mind.
