Abstract
IN ONE OF Bleuler's numerous examples of associational defect in schizophrenia, he quotes a woman patient who has just returned from a walk with her family: (She) began with enumerating members of her family, Father, Son, then adding, Holy Ghost. She then proceeded to tack on the Holy Virgin. 1 This paper explores nature of defect that allows patient with schizophrenia to slip so easily out of context in which he began to speak. In past several years there has been increasing interest in altered mechanisms of attention in schizophrenia. (By attention, we mean selectivity in what is responded to, or sensory selectivity.) 2 Theoreticians, such as Lang and Buss, 3 Maher, 4 and Venables 5 have attempted to explain this Psychological alteration of attention in terms of neurophysiological changes in cortical arousal caused by autonomic
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