Abstract
A group of 42 clinicians examined proverb interpretations and samples of writing from two schizophrenics, two manics, and two creative writers without any information about symptoms or past history. They diagnosed thought disorder more frequently in the writers and manics than in the schizophrenics and noted in them more traits commonly thought characteristic of thought disorder. Suspected diagnoses were never the same as the actual clinical diagnoses, and they were unable to distinguish the psychotic from the nonpsychotic individuals. These data suggest that current thinking about the nature and significance of thought disorder should be reexamined and reevaluated.
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