Cohen, Richard Michael2019-05-0719661966b14628715https://hdl.handle.net/2144/35381Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston UniversityPLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis or dissertation. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you.From an analysis of the research and clinical literature certain expectations were derived for differentiating between process and reactive patients and a normal group in emotional and cognitive response than the normal to the conflictual situations. It was further hypothesized that the process schizophrenic would evidence greater "cognitive interference" effects in stories told to conflictual stimuli than either the reactive schizophrenic or the normal and that the patterns of these conflict areas would differentiate the three groups. [TRUNCATED]en-USSchizophreniaPsychologyThesis/Dissertation1171902561020799190944970001161