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An interesting new study suggests people with schizophrenia reason more logically than healthy individuals when confronted with a situation where common sense and logic conflict… . Given that schizophrenia is at its core a pathological state of thinking, the results suggest that concepts of rationality that prioritise theoretical reason over practical reason might apply more accurately in a pathological example of human thinking than in healthy human thinking.
–» The Logic of Schizophrenia - Psych Central News
i love tumblr because the format encourages me to post things like this and intentionally not pass judgment. i’m just tickled that the article exists.
also amusing is the fact that i got this from a “mental health newsletter” sent by my HMO.
