About Aetiology of Schizophrenia

« To make progress towards a workable theory of psychosis, analysts must abandon the whole idea of schizophrenia and paranoia as seen in terms of regression from the œdipus complex. The aetiology of these disorders takes us inevitably to stages that precede the three-body relationship. The strange corollary is that there is at the root of psychosis an external factor. This is difficult for psycho-analysis to admit this after all the work they have done drawing attention to the internal factors in examining the aetiology of psycho-neurosis ».

WINNICOTT D.W., « On ‘‘The Use of an Object’’ », ≃ 196