title: An Alternative View of Schizophrenic Cognition
creator: Snyder, Douglas M.
subject: Clinical Psychology
subject: Logic
description: An alternative view to the traditionally held view that schizophrenia is characterised by severely disordered cognition is presented. It is possible that apparently self-contradictory expressions of schizophrenics are well-formed communicative expressions of highly ordered cognitive systems. Building on the premise that behavior is in general communicative, and using Godel’s Incompleteness Theorem from logic as a model, it is shown that the most characteristic symptoms of schizophrenia (namely apparently self-contradictory thought, delusions and hallucinations) may indicate truths that cannot be derived within highly ordered cognitive systems.
date: 1991
type: Journal (Paginated)
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: http://cogprints.org/839/3/schizophrenia.pdf
identifier:   Snyder, Douglas M.  (1991) An Alternative View of Schizophrenic Cognition.  [Journal (Paginated)]     
relation: http://cogprints.org/839/