Psychosis Note

Listening to WKSG sunday news.

"Charlotte" describes a man, with Schizophrenia, in San Quentin, who wrote secret messages on toilet paper, wrapped the toilet paper in feces, then placed the messages in braids in his hair.  Prison psychiatrist decides man knows he is to be executed, not "reupholstered," because he beats her at Tic-Tac-Toe!

Psychiatry itself recognizes that psychosis is a different processing of information than "normal."  Perhaps individual modules of reasoning of a certain kind, such as playing tic-tac-toe may remain intact and it is the relationship among these modules (or streams or segments) which reflects psychosis.???

It seems to me that psychiatry deliberately places stigma on certain kinds of self-knowledge in order to 1) deprive people of the benefit of that self-knowledge and 2) to retard such self-knowledge in most people in order to keep them within productive, i.e., profitable bounds.