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CULTURE AND SCHIZOPHRENIA:
A
Consideration of Ignorance and Information
David Gordon Howe, Ph.D.
Chapel Hill
1977
Culture and Schizophrenia: A
Consideration of Ignorance and Information
argues that "schizophrenia" is founded in
problem-solving behavior. This perspective is
elaborated in an information systems theoretical
frame.
Both as
individuals and in groups, humans act as adaptive
systems. Such adaptation calls for ways to solve
problems that arise, involving the processing of
information. A problem is reacted to by a
problem-solving response. It is posited that these
mechanisms for solving problems make it possible
to solve some problems but concomitantly cause
others. It is further argued that one such connected problem is
"schizophrenia", which can be viewed as a
malfunction of the problem-solving mechanism.
CONTENTS
COMING TO TERMS WITH DEFINITIONS
OF
MAPS AND GAPS IN THE MINDS OF MAN
Note: Looking at this work now, it appears to
me that it has aged wonderfully well.
Over the
years I have done a great deal of editing and when I look back at the rough
draft of this manuscript I cringe. My dear friend Margo
Byrd did such a marvelous job of clearing away the underbrush
that when I read through it now I
see my meaning and her clarification so wonderfully juxtaposed
I wonder that I didn't end up marrying her, notwithstanding her
husband and horses (I have been feuding with horses for more
than 40 years and Margo was a serious equestrienne).
Some friends give you a warm glow that never gives up and she is
one of those. I look back chagrined in that at that time I suspect
I was less than properly grateful for her marvelous contribution
to this work. My debt of gratitude remains right here.
Thank you, Margo, ever so much.
My apologies in that I still have
not found a program to make the graphs this text contains
to my satisfaction. The first two are simple
logical definitions of the universe of concern and
the issues involved should be clear from the text.
Later there are two in "The Problem with
Problems", the first of which is a grid (rather
like a chess board) with the cells denoting on/off
states with the x axis being cognition and the y
axis being emotion. The second is these grids
stacked on one another forming a cube of grids one
on one another with the z axis being time.
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