"52 blind subjects were rated on the Social Adjustment Scale and then tested for ego strength, manifest anxiety, attitudes towards blindness, attitudes towards the efficacy of medicine and religion to restore health, and degrees of antidemocratic personality." The maladjusted believed in a miraculous cure from medicine or religion. The socially adapted and matched normals showed no differences. From Psyc Abstracts 36:04:4JC55Z.
To understand schizophrenic behavior, three views of schizophrenia are examined: the static view, the expectancy view, and the view of interaction. Contrary to the first and second views of schizophrenia, which assume symptoms emanate from a specific biological entity, the view of interaction maintains that schizophrenia is a consequence of an interaction between an observer's clinical biases of perception and the sense impressions he receives upon observing a behaving organism. According to the view of interaction, schizophrenia is a cultural phenomenon which emerges from a social and evolutionary process. Without the presence of social sophistication, a clinical profession could not exist, standard biases of perception could not be sustained, and the phenomenon of schizophrenia could not become manifest.
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