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doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2010.08.015. Epub 2010 Sep 16.Meaningful confusions and confusing meanings in communication in schizophrenia
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Meaningful confusions and confusing meanings in communication in schizophrenia
Brita Elvevåg et al. Psychiatry Res..
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Unconventional discourse in schizophrenia has been speculated to be attributable to the mixing up of symbols and signs. We illustrate how a series of scientific images, cartoons, and prose are used by a patient to weave disparate-and objectively unrelated-concepts. The resulting prose is incoherent science.
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