ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that the pathology at its extreme will have symptoms whose formal characteristics would lead the pathology to be classified as a schizophrenia. Many writers have treated schizophrenia in terms of the most extreme contrast with any other form of human thinking and behavior. The chapter outlines a communicational theory of the origin and nature of schizophrenia. In place of structures which derive from the syllogism, Barbara, the schizophrenic, according to this theory, uses structures which identify predicates. Psychotherapy itself is a context of multi-level communication, with exploration of the ambiguous lines between the literal and metaphoric, or reality and fantasy, and indeed, various forms of play, drama, and hypnosis have been used extensively in therapy. An incident from the experience of a gifted psychotherapist illustrates the intuitive understanding of a double bind com-municational sequence. Many of the uniquely appropriate therapeutic gambits arranged by therapists seem to be intuitive.
