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= Psychotic =

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1. does [[Definitions/Not_Know|not know]] what is going on in his environment and does not know what is going on inside himself. It is all unknown and therefore unobservational-unobserved. He doesn’t know what’s happening inside himself and he doesn’t know what’s happening with himself and he doesn’t know what’s happening where he is and he doesn’t know what’s happening in front of him or behind him at any given time of the day or night. This is the one common denominator of all [[Definitions/Psychosis|psychosis]]. (SH Spec 41, 6108C17)

2. that person who cannot receive orders of any kind, who sits unmoving or goes berserk at the [[Definitions/Thought|thought]] of [[Definitions/Doing|doing]] anything told him by another determinism. ([[Definitions/HCOB|HCOB]] 25 Aug 60 II)

3. the [[Definitions/Complete|complete]] subject of one or more unknown causes to which he is the unwilling [[Definitions/Effect|effect]] and any [[Definitions/Effort|effort]] on his part to be cause is interfered with by the things to which he is the effect. ([[Definitions/PAB|PAB]] 144)

4. when a person has lost his [[Definitions/Ability|ability]] to impose time and space upon his facsimiles and his memories he’s psychotic, he’s gone. (5209CM04B)

5. an avoidance of both the [[Definitions/Future|future]] and [[Definitions/Present_Time|present time]] and a shift into the past. (PAB 17)

6. the case which cannot observe but thinks obsessively is known to us as the psychotic. (PAB 8)

7. that person according to Dn definition whose [[Definitions/Theta|theta]] has become [[Definitions/Entheta|entheta]] completely, and who is either entirely locked up in an [[Definitions/Engram|engram]] or [[Definitions/Chain|chain]] of engrams and does nothing but [[Definitions/Dramatize|dramatize]] them or who is under the command of a [[Definitions/Control_Circuit|control circuit]] and does some [[Definitions/Computation|computation]], if limited and unreasonable. (SOS, Bk. 2, p. 190)

8. an individual who cannot [[Definitions/Handle|handle]] himself or his environment well enough to [[Definitions/Survive|survive]] and who must be cared for to protect others from him or to protect him from himself. (SOS, p. 25)

9. a person who is physically or mentally harmful to those about him [[Definitions/Out_Of|out of]] proportion to the amount of use he is to them. (SOS, p. 26)

10. computation only of past situations. (Scn 0-8, p. 89)

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