ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that the statistical relation between schizotaxia, schizotypy, and schizophrenia is class inclusion: All schizotaxics become, on all actually existing social learning regimes, schizotypic in personality organization; but most of these remain compensated. The most important research need is development of high-validity indicators for compensated schizotypy. A genetic theory of schizophrenia would, in this sense, be stronger than that of “one contributor to variance”; but weaker than that of “largest contributor to variance.” There is a tendency among organically minded theorists to analogize between catatonic phenomena and various neurological or chemically induced states in animals. In addition to the asymmetry generated by the difference in feedback signs, certain other features in the mixed-regime setup contribute to aversive drift. The schizotype’s dependency guilt and aversive overreaction to offers of help are seen as residues of the early knitting together of his cortical representations of appetitive goals with punishment-expectancy assembly systems.
