SENSORY DEPRIVATION AND SCHIZOPHRENIA: SOME CLINICAL AND THEORETICAL SIMILARITIES
NORMAN ROSENZWEIG M.D.1
1 The Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Mich.
It would seem, in fact, that we now have an experimental model of the schizophrenic syndrome superior to the "model psychoses" induced with mescaline or LSD. Not only will perceptual interference reproduce more closely the primary symptoms of schizophrenia, but these disturbances are caused entirely by external manipulation, without the confusion of a toxic psychosis. While of course we cannot assume that approaches such as these will give us valid answers to all our questions, I believe we have here an important instrument to help us bridge the gap between the laboratory and the clinic.
