ABSTRACT
INABILITY to reason logically about the relationships between objects and events is a major aspect of schizophrenia, and unconventional modes of drawing inferences about the meaning of one’s experience usually identify a significant disturbance of thought processes. Arieti (1955, pp. 189–273) devotes considerable attention to the schizophrenic’s tendency to “retreat from reason,” and a review of his excellent discussion will provide a good introduction to psychodiagnostic indicators of pathologic reasoning.
