ABSTRACT
Although reservations have been voiced about the justification for applying a single term “schizophrenic” to individuals differing markedly in their manifest symptoms, there is general agreement that the overwhelming majority of persons thus diagnosed are alike insofar as they have undergone a striking transformation in the organization of their worlds. Practically all those who have studied “schizophrenics” concur with Bleuler’s view (21) that such patients live in fundamentally autistic universes.
