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Pilot Study Utilizing Piaget's Theories

THOMAS L. TRUNNELL, MD

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1964;11(2):126-136.

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Controversy exists as to whether or not there is a thought disturbance in schizophrenia, and, if there is a thought disturbance, how it is to be interpreted. This paper presents a pilot study which approaches these questions from the vantage point of Jean Piaget's developmental psychology.

Bleuler⁵ directed attention to the possibility that there was a thought disturbance other than progressive dementia present in schizophrenia. Since then, a considerable body of evidence has been accumulated demonstrating differences in the performances of schizophrenics and normals on various testing tasks (eg, Bannister,³ Benjamin,⁶ Cameron,^7-9 Chapman,^10-12 Cohen et al,¹³ Epstein,¹⁵ Feldman and Drasgow,^14,17 Fey,¹⁹ Goldstein and Scheerer,²² Hanfmann and Kasanin,²⁴ MacGaughran and Moran,²⁸ Meadow et al,³⁰ Payne et al,³¹ Vigotsky,⁵⁴ and Zaslow⁶¹). Most studies have measured the schizophrenic's . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
BOSTON

Fellow in Child Psychiatry, Massachusetts Mental Health Center, and teaching fellow in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Dec 11, 1963.