Abstract
The phenomenological descriptions of schizophrenic stereotypies and their interpretation by various schools is briefly reviewed. A small group of schizophrenic patients were studied in detail and a delusional basis established in a proportion of them, but evidence is offered which indicates that a delusional basis is an incomplete explanation of the phenomena and an alternative classification not involving a differentiation between stereotypies and mannerisms is offered. Traditional views on the progressive simplification of sterotypies are modified and experiments are described which suggest that procedures which induce attention and particularly those which induce the patient to do something, tend to inhibit sterotypies.
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