The Process-Reactive Continuum

Kantor, Robert; Winder, C. L.

doi:10.1097/00005053-195911000-00003

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“…The currently predominant view of process-reactive schizophrenia is that of a continuous dimension, with the "typical" process schizophrenic at one pole and the "typical" reactive schizophrenic at the other. The arguments and data offered for this position may be found in papers by Becker (1956Becker ( , 1959, Garmezy and Rodnick (1959), Kan tor and Herron (1965), Kantor, Wallner, and Winder (1953), and Kantor and Winder (1959). Notwithstanding the preponderance of investigators endorsing the continuum point of view, the process-reactive literature remains replete with implicit or explicit labeling of experimental groups of process and reactive schizophrenics as distinct "types."…”

Section: Dichotomy Versus Continuummentioning

confidence: 99%

“…SEVERITY OF ILLNESS Does the process-reactive concept imply more than a difference in severity of illness? Process-reactive schizophrenia has usually carried with it some notion of parallel personality development (or maldevelopment), be it Becker's (1956) "levels of personality organization," Kan tor and Herron's (1965) "continuum of malignancies," Kantor and Winder's (1959) "personality integration modes," or Zigler and Phillips' (1962) conclusion that "the process-reactive distinction [is] reducible to the social maturity dimension ... [p. 221]."…”

Section: Organic Involvementmentioning

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Concept of process-reactive schizophrenia: A critique.

Higgins¹,

Peterson²

1966

Psychological Bulletin

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A review of current issues, including the dichotomy vs. continuum view of the process-reactive concept; the question of organic involvement in process schizophrenia; the relationship of severity of illness to the concept; the problem of duration of hospitalization; comparability of criteria; adequacy of control groups; sociocultural diversity; and uniformity of process-reactive differences.1 This paper was prepared during the tenure of a faculty research grant from the University of California to the senior author.

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Concept of process-reactive schizophrenia: A critique.

Higgins¹,

Peterson²

1966

Psychological Bulletin

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“…Several clinical writers have stated that schizophrenic thought disorder consists of a regression to infantile levels of thought. This is the theoretical position of such psychopathologists as Arieti (1955), Fenichel (1945, Freud (1950), Kantor and Winder (1959), Levin (1936), andSullivan (1924). Cognitive theorists who have also endorsed this point of view include Goldman (1962), Piaget (1923), Vigotsky (1934), von Domarus (1964, and Werner (1957).…”

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Regression in schizophrenic thought disorder.

Klorman

Chapman²

1969

Journal of Abnormal Psychology

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This study investigated the relevance of some of Chapman, Chapman, and Miller's findings concerning schizophrenic verbal behavior to the hypothesis of regression in schizophrenic thought. Chapman et al. found that schizophrenics misinterpret words in context by relying excessively on the strongest normal aspects of meaning, neglecting the weaker aspects of meaning. In the present study, the same task that discriminated schizophrenics from normals in this error tendency was administered to third, fourth, and eighth graders. Younger children differed from older children in the same ways that schizophrenics differed from normal adults. Thus, the hypothesis of regression in schizophrenic thought was confirmed at a descriptive level.

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“…Students of schizophrenia have indicated that inadequate mastery of a previous step hinders the mastery of later stages (14). Students of schizophrenia have indicated that inadequate mastery of a previous step hinders the mastery of later stages (14).…”

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“…Customarily, the development of the person into a socialized human is depicted as a series of steps, each of which must be mastered before being left behind. Students of schizophrenia have indicated that inadequate mastery of a previous step hinders the mastery of later stages (14). The lever behind every child's progress is his need for affection; the development of the person is basically the development of a favorable self-image.…”

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confidence: 99%