The authors describe psychic phenomena observed in healthy humans that may resemble psychopathological ones. Some styles of thinking may look like an inclination to empty philosophizing; some states observed in persons with creative mode of thinking may resemble autism; normal ambivalence is similar to ambivalence as a pathological symptom. The authors stress the necessity of comparative studies of psychopathological and normal psychological phenomena.
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