Problems Posed by Schizophrenic Language

Lorenz, Maria

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“…These, hoyvever, as one of the most diligent authors of this research expressed lately, belong to the problem of their think ing rather than to their speech per se [4]. Anyway, as I hope I was able to prove to you, there is sufficient incentive and promise in the purely logopcdic approach to the speech and voice of the m entally ill.…”

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“…Lorenz (1968) provides some extracts from recorded interviews with schizophrenic patients: ''Am I a good cook? It depends on whose house I'm cooking.…”

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“…"The players and boundaries have been of different colors in terms of black and white and I do not intend that the futuramas of supersonic fixtures will ever be in my life again because I believe that all known factors that would have its effect on me even the chemical reaction of ameno [sic] acids as they are in the process of combustronability are known to me." (p. 395) Lorenz (1968) cautioned against the tendency to assume a schizophrenic language from limited samples of language behavior observed in schizophrenic individuals: "When we have a name for something, we tend automatically to assume the existence of a corresponding reality. Language, as used by schizophrenic patients, becomes identified by the term 'schizophrenic language.'…”

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“…294-295) As an example of the latter, Brown refers to a study in which the investigator found that schizophrenics would accept an unusually large number of synonyms for words. Not only is it clear that giving a large range of meanings to words is an exercise in abstraction, but in more or less typical examples of what is described as a penchant for dealing concretely with questions there may be a clear awareness of conceptual categories of kind and type, as Maria Lorenz (1968) (Lorenz, 1968, p. 36) Another haunting example is a letter addressed to Arieti by one of his patients in which the writer examines the varied meanings of the word passion. Dear Dr. Arieti (Arieti, 1974) 113 Cameron (1963) has also been critical of the kinds of evidence advanced to support the regression hypothesis.…”

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“…In her rebuttal to Fromkin, Chaika (1977) contrasts the samples from The White House Transcripts with a specimen of schizophrenic "word salad" reported by Lorenz (1968): "The honest bring-back-to-life doctors agents must take John Black out through making up design meaning straight neutral underworld shadow tunnel." The structure of the syntactic errors in this passage cannot be easily identified, while the deviance in the White House passages is "caused by piling sentence upon sentence, often failing to embed subsequent sentences into the matrix, or to finish the matrix" (Chaika, 1977, p. 466).…”

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The Psychopathology of Language and Cognition

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1995

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Originally published by Plenum press, New York in 1995Softcovcr reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1995 10 987654321 All rights reservedNo part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording, or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher Preface A quarter century ago, one of the authors undertook the task of surveying research and theory in an area that, for lack of a more precise designation, was called "language behavior and psychopathology." The book published under the same title addressed those precincts of language behavior wherein the interests of the psychologist, psychiatrist, linguist, and speech pathologist showed some tendencies toward convergence. The principal focus was on aspects of language and paralanguage-variously, and on the whole, indifferently referred to as "deviation," "anomalies," "aberrations," or "disturbances" -that occur with sufficient frequency in relation to certain categories of personality disorders that they have long occupied a prominent (and coritroversial) place in the psychodiagnostic process.Language Behavior and Psychopathology (1969) made clear to the reader that it did not deal with such primary patterns of language disturbance as aphasia and stuttering. This was not to deny the relevance of psychopathological considerations in such language disorders. The importance of emotional conflict in the pathogenesis of stuttering had been amply documented, and there was abundant clinical evidence that aphasic patients might react adversely to their lowered or altered capacities'in symbolizing and communicating, even to the extent of exhibiting what Kurt Goldstein called a "catastrophic reaction." Regardless, however, of any psychopathological factors that may be present in aphasia or stuttering, both are essentially linguistic disorders. Their principal symptoms are manifested in vocal speech, and their treatment requires some or a great deal of speech therapy and retraining.On the other hand, as the book sought to emphasize, the linguistic and v vi Preface paralinguistic phenomena that occur as concomitants to conventional psychiatric syndromes might be characterized more accurately as language symptoms than as language disturbances. Clinical descriptions of personality disorders prominently feature descriptions of language and paralinguistic behavior. Anyone questioning this statement need only try to imagine the difficulties presented by the psychodiagnostic assessment of a patient bereft of speech. Much, if not most, diagnostic test behavior is language behavior, and among the chief criteria for gauging therapeutic progress is change in language behavior.If there was a common orientation toward language and communication behavior in the psychopathological context, it expressed itself in two objectives. The first was an attempt to arrive at a precise description of the way or ways that individuals diagnosed as belonging to a particular nos...

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