... have to go on is the disorder asdefined, the phenomena, not the noumena. In other words, it is the strange beliefs, the hallucinations, and their contents, that we have to explain.There has long ... Is there any kind of meaningful link between the natureof the events and the form and content of psychosis? Are there particular attributes ofevents that encourage psychotic reactions, and ... generallyreject theories, of aetiology and so on, before rejecting the theoretical constructrepresented by the syndrome. We may nevertheless eventually decide that the syndrome has failed, in the sense...