- does not know what is going on in his environment and does not know what is going on
inside himself. It is all unknown and therefore unobservational—unobserved. He
doesn't know what's happening inside himself and he doesn't know what's happening with
himself and he doesn't know what's happening where he is and he doesn't know what's
happening in front of him or behind him at any given time of the day or night. This is the
one common denominator of all psychosis. (SH Spec 41, 6108C17)
- that person who cannot receive orders of any kind, who sits unmoving or goes berserk at
the thought of doing anything told him by another determinism. (HCOB 25 Aug 60 II)
- the complete subject of one or more unknown causes to which he is the unwilling effect
and any effort on his part to be cause is interfered with by the things to which he is the
effect. (PAB 144)
- when a person has lost his ability to impose time and space upon his facsimiles and his
memories he's psychotic, he's gone. (5209CM04B)
- an avoidance of both the future and present time and a shift into the past. (PAB 17)
- the case which cannot observe but thinks obsessively is known to us as the psychotic.
(PAB 8)
- that person according to Dn definition whose theta has become entheta completely, and
who is either entirely locked up in an engram or chain of engrams and does nothing but
dramatize them or who is under the command of a control circuit and does some computation,
if limited and unreasonable. (SOS,
Bk. 2, p. 190)
- an individual who cannot handle himself or his environment well enough to survive and
who must be cared for to protect others from him or to protect him from himself. (SOS, p. 25)
- a person who is physically or mentally harmful to those about him out of proportion to
the amount of use he is to them. (SOS,
p. 26)
- computation only of past situations. (Scn 0-8, p. 89)