Medication, logic, and schizophernic thinking: a reply to Marini.

Abstract

This article attempts to answer Marini's critique of my paper and to clarify the issue of medication in the study of the role of logic in the production of schizophrenic thought. It is argued that clinical observations do not lead one to believe that either the form or the content of schizophrenic thought disorder changes in any fundamental way as a result of medication. Consequently, the fact that most of the schizophrenic Ss were medicated at the time of the original research does not negate the conclusion that the thinking pathology found in schizophrenics cannot be accounted for by positing a basic defect in their deductive reasoning process.