By W. F. McAuley (Auth.)
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Headaches, tiredness, and vague gastric symptoms, it is obvious that to treat such manifestations in a casual symptomatic way may cause irreparable damage by reinforcing the patient's feeling that his symptoms are due to physical causes and by thus giving new impetus to the continuation and worsening of the schizophrenic process. In 4 50 THE CONCEPT OF SCHIZOPHRENIA criticism of the concept it is common experience that schizophrenia may suddenly strike an apparently well-integrated personality who has shown no evidence of faulty reaction attitudes and no evidence of an abnormal pre-psychotic personality.
He attempted to resolve this impasse on a theory of instincts, stating : " Among the great primary instincts which provide the opposing forces of mental conflict a dominant place must be assigned to the herd instinct . . a vast part of the beliefs and conduct of man is due to the operation of this instinct . . that is to say a line of conduct upon which the herd has set its sanction acquires all the characters of an instinctive action, although this line of conduct may have no rational basis, may run counter to the dictates of experience, and may be in direct opposition to the tendencies generated by the other primary instincts ".
Invisible, intangible, it is a thing not even of outline ; it is not a ' thing \ It remains without sensual confirmation, and remains without it for ever. Stripped to nakedness there remains nothing to it but itself. What then does that amount to ? All that counts in life. Desire, zest, truth, love, knowledge, ' values ' and, seeking metaphor to eke out expression, hell's depth and heaven's utmost height. " Aside from these theories of reflex action Cannon's experiments led him to hold the view that " .