After Mastery Comes Artistry And Not Before.

Schizophrenia --its Nature, Etiology, And The Kind Of Therapy To Use For It--remains One Of The Most Puzzling Of The Mental Illnesses. The Theory Of Schizophrenia Presented Here Is Based On Communications Analysis, And Specifically On The Theory Of Logical Types. From This Theory And From Observations Of Schizophrenic Patients Is Derived A Description, And The Necessary Conditions For, A Situation Called The "double Bind"--a Situation In Which No Matter What A Person Does, He "can't Win." It Is Hypothesized That A Person Caught In The Double Bind May Develop Schizophrenic Symptoms

Perhaps The Attempt To Achieve Grace By Identification With The Animals Was The Most Sensitive Thing Which Was Tried In The Whole Bloody History Of Religion .

Most Of Us Have Lost That Sense Of Unity Of Biosphere And Humanity Which Would Bind And Reassure Us All With An Affirmation Of Beauty. Most Of Us Do Not Today Believe That Whatever The Ups And Down Of Detail Within Our Limited Experience, The Larger Whole Is Primarily Beautiful.

The Major Problems In The World Are The Result Of The Difference Between How Nature Works And The Way People Think.

We Can Never Be Quite Clear Whether We Are Referring To The World As It Is Or To The World As We See It.