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Overinclusive Thinking in Mania and Schizophrenia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

N. J. C. Andreasen  and
Pauline S. Powers
N. J. C. Andreasen
Affiliation:
University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, U.S.A.
Pauline S. Powers
Affiliation:
University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, U.S.A.
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Beginning with the work of Cameron (1944), the concept of overinclusive thinking has been used to describe or account for the thought disorder observed in schizophrenic patients. This is usually defined as an inability to preserve conceptual boundaries, perhaps based on a cerebral input dysfunction which causes difficulty in filtering stimuli (Payne et al., 1959; McGhie, 1970; Epstein, 1953; Broadbent, 1958). This leads the schizophrenic to make remote associations and to overgeneralize or overabstract.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 125 , Issue 588 , November 1974 , pp. 452 - 456
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1974 

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