Appendix To The Paper Titled "Insight"
A Systematic Typology Of General Mental Disorders

	The following paper is a brief discussion on a typology of general mental disorders following on from material introduced and developed in the paper titled Insight: Appreciation As A Process Of Recognition. In this appendix I will first briefly introduce the subject by discussing the role played by suspension in a double hermeneutic circle along with the concept of the suspension of the suspension. 
	In the first section a series of postulations, interpretations, axioms, observations will be listed. In the second section this list will be integrated in the form of a schema with various brief arguments for the manner of the integration adopted. In the third section this schema will be visualized and its practical applications noted. Lastly in the form of a conclusion the implications of this paper will be briefly alluded to.
	In previous work it was noted that a psychosis, in general terms, might be defined, in reference to a double hermeneutic circle, as a psychic state of being trapped in, or locked into, the suspension generated between reduction and reconstitution, etc., without being able to suspend that suspension and therein making an effectual exit from the same. In contrast a neurosis, in general terms, might be defined as an inability to enter the suspension and thereby being, in effect, locked out of the same. Assuming that these two states of overall suspension, namely, the `suspension' and the `suspension of the suspension,' are exercised in an inverse relationship to each other it follow that the excessive attention, or lack of attention, on one of the aspects of this polar phenomenon would resulted in an inversed relationship of suppression or dominance of the other. This would neatly explain states of normalcy as only moderate degrees of suppression/dominance exercised between these two inversely related polarities, and, that the excessive dominance/suppression of one of these poles could not be matched by an equal dominance/suppression of the other, i.e., a psychotic-neurosis or a neurotic-psychosis was not obtainable. That in effect it was not possible to be both equally psychotic and neurotic at the same time(?).
	A distinction is made between the suspension and the overall super-suspension. The former gives us access to a higher level of psychological organization but is itself only one of three polar modes, or nodes, in a hermeneutic circle (namely, analytic-reduction, synthetic-reconstitution and suspension), whereas, an overall super-suspension is a suspension of the entire hermeneutic circle on that level of consciousness and gives access to another (higher) level of psychological organization. A double hermeneutic circle is proposed in order to counter-balance the potential paralysis of the suspension by the suspension of that suspension, and, to give thematic contrast to the productivity of the other hermeneutic circle by looking at the structural-functions of the intentional object-state with respect to itself and the intentional object-state with respect to its field or horizon in which it its thematically situated. Metaphorically the first hermeneutic circle, and its suspension, is treated as `vertical' and establishing the psychological orientation of the psyche, i.e., on what level and in what aspect that person's psychological life is currently centered. The second hermeneutic circle is metaphorically treated as `horizontal,' that vertical level on which, through processes of reduction, reconstitution and suspension, the intentional object-state is thematized and thereby establishing a simulation of the situation in its situatedness. This double nexus, double hermeneutic circle, running through all aspects of intentional activity, e.g., object-field, reflection-action, process-content, concept-percept, transcendental - non-transcendental, etc.

I.	A Series Of Non-Integrated Postulations

1.	Recognition of the decision to treat non-neurotic forms of psychopathology, sociopathy, personality disorders, as a form of psychosis centered in the Transcendental Aspect, or Level, of our Schema as essentially a psychotic disorder of judgment and value creation (in distinction to schizophrenia defined by myself as a psychotic disorder of intentionality centered in the Cognitive Aspect or Level of our Schema).

2.	Treatment of the distinction between psychosis and neurosis as a defective location in the (double) hermeneutic circle (in a general or specific level of consciousness) re the general processes associated with suspension being, respectively, that position `locked into the suspension/circle' and `locked out of the suspension/circle.'

3.	Recognition of the general observation that an affective psychosis is fundamentally more disruptive of the psyche than a cognitive psychosis (schizophrenia). In turn we can make the following observation that a socio-pathology is less constitutionally disruptive of the psyche (this is not to say, however, that any one of these three forms of psychosis cannot be, in effect, completely disruptive). In support of this latter contention we can note that sociopaths are often not properly recognized (nor correctly differentiated clinically as a form of psychosis complicated by cognitive and affective components).

4.	That each of our three basic levels in our Schema of the Affective, Cognitive and Transcendental have the same archetypal structure of Suspension, Reduction and Reconstitution. A mild degree of dysfunction manifesting itself in a classification as simple by virtue of its vague, unmanifested, generally undifferentiated symptomatology.

5.	Suspension (of the preceding psychological level and its productive content) giving psychic access to the next higher level. Suspension of that level of activity taking the form of a `suspension of the suspension,' effectively a super-suspension of the three polar moments of suspension, reduction and reconstitution. That disorders of access (manifested in a simple classification), suspension, reduction and reconstitution give a distinctive symptomatology dependent on where disorder is primarily located in the Schema, whether that level is effected in a mono-polar, bi-polar or tri-polar form, and, secondarily, whether secondary effects on other levels give that disorder a mono-aspectival, bi-aspectival or tri-aspectival complexion; e.g., a psychopathology with an affective component such as hypomania, e.g., a bi-polar affective disorder, etc.

6.	Provisionally the following classification mirror this tripartite treatment of these fundamental, archetypal levels in psycho-epistemological constitutional organization and function. With respect to suspension, reduction and reconstitution in the Affective Aspect we find agitated depression, depression and hypomania; with respect to the Cognitive Aspect we find catatonic, paranoid and hebephrenic types of schizophrenic symptomatology; with respect to the Transcendental Aspect we find the fantasy-sociopath, the political-sociopath/psychopath and the labile, relatively more aggressive, sociopath/psychopath). This arbitrary distinction between sociopath and psychopath merely reflecting the increasing degree of psychic-disruption and intersocial-disruptiveness interpreted as constitutionally and functionally present.

7.	With the classifications as outlined in 6. I shall now phenomenologically re-describe the same in the light of this schema for psychotic disorders.

	Agitated depression: an affective state locked into the functions of the affective level without the ability to properly exist via the affective super-suspension into the foundationally supported functioning of the Cognitive Aspect. Generally a micro-oscillation between depressive rigidity and hypomanic dis-association.
	Endogenous depression: an affective state locked into the moment of reduction with a consequent rigidity in structural-functions through an emphasis on the structural. Sense of time and response is static, with affect as flat, blunted or severely paralyzed. Motivation is severely diminished.
	Hypomania: an affective state locked into the moment of reconstitution with a consequent emphasis on superfluidty of meta-textual associations, elevated affect, excessive unconcentrated motivation, ambition, etc.

	Catatonia: a cognitive state locked into the moment of suspension manifesting itself in an increasing state of paralysis from indecisiveness, ambivalence, mutism, catatonic flexibility, catatonic rigidity and cataplexy.
	Paranoia: a cognitive state locked into the moment of reduction manifesting itself in an over-interpretation of textual detail, rigidity in interpretation, and consequent mis-interpretation manifested in degrees of suspiciousness, etc. In reaction to a loss of self-value, in compensation various reactions take place to varying degrees, namely, ideas of grandeur, ideas of reference, ideas of persecution, etc.
	Hebephrenia:  a cognitive state locked into the moment of reconstitution manifesting itself in an over supply of meta-textual frames of reference with a consequence looseness in associations, etc. General fatuousness, inappropriateness and a profound lose of practical motivation, etc.

	Fantasy-sociopathology: a transcendental state locked into the moment of suspension involving a disruption in value creation characterized by a progressive loss in the distinction between actuality and fantasy. General loss of motivation, low frustration level, lack of a general empathy with others (apparently diminished to some extent through the social use of certain behaviour altering drugs, e.g., alcohol).
	Political-sociopathology: a transcendental state locked into the moment of reduction involving a disruption in value creation characterized by a progressive loss in the exercise of socially accepted values, e.g., general honesty. Ambitions of a political-like nature usually achieved through the expert manipulation of others, etc.
	Labile-sociopathology: a transcendental state locked into the moment of reconstitution involving a disruption in value creation characterized by a progressive loss in their resistance to frustration. Tendency to be aggressive due to a highly labile disposition.

8.	That neuroses reflect this classification to an as yet undetermined extent despite their metaphorically being locked out of suspension and its access to the fully functioning constitutional processes of that level. Provisionally, on the affective level we will most probably have states of non-motivation, fears and phobias, and, panic states, states of anxiety, etc. On the cognitive level we will probably find obsessions; compulsions; and obsessive-compulsive states. On the transcendental level we might find various distortions in value creation through a lack of a suspension in prejudices, e.g., unrealistic, unrealizable motivations and ambitions; local bias; global bigotry, etc.

9.	The hypothesis that suspension and super-suspension stand in a certain inverse relationship to each other. That disorder in one implies the less probable occurrence of the other at the same time (unless a progressively endeepened and entrenched neurosis leads to the instantiation of a psychosis?).

10.	Allied to 9. is the observation that a psychosis is the result of, or the effect of, a halving of the circadian rhythms with daily functions spread over the space of two days. Whereas, with respect to a neurosis, we have a doubling of the circadian rhythms with daily functions repeated over the space of one day? This can be examined with respect to processes of sleep, temperature cycles, eating habits, fluctuations in mood, etc.

11.	Perception of the double hermeneutic circle as taking place metaphorically on a primary vertical axis through the three major aspects of our Schema, and, a secondary horizontal axis ostensively exercised on a particular level of consciousness (or set of levels in bi-aspectival, tri-aspectival disorders). On the vertical axis we might like to consider suspension as related to the senses of the transcendental Ego (not to be confused with a cognitive sense of ego) and the Transcendental Aspect; reduction as related to the senses of intentional Object, or, Object-State, etc., and the Cognitive Aspect; reconstitution as related to the senses of fields collected treated as the World and the Affective Aspect.

12.	In the metaphorical, spherical space generated by these two hermeneutic circles of the vertical and the horizontal we might like to consider various mathematical models to help us in the modeling of these states of disorder, etc.
	In this process of modeling we might like to adopt one of the following proposals:
i.	Spherical co-ordinates.
ii.	Three horizontal axes at 120o and one vertical axis representing level.
iii.	Rewriting one of the hermeneutic axes in terms of the contra-determination of the other two giving us an asymmetrical reduplicated space. E.g., with three poles of a,b,c let us rewrite a in terms of -b + -c. This result can be expressed in a flat co-ordinant system but the passage from b to c is not the same as that transformational passage that travels via a. Hence such space is reduplicated non-asymmetrically.
iv.	Three parallel co-ordinant systems reflecting our three aspects of the Transcendental, Cognitive and the Affective. This can take place, when and where useful, in a symmetrical duplication of space. Let us say, in this hypothetical light, that the symptomatology of hypomania has some structural-functional similarities with cognitive-hebephrenia and transcendental-lability in psychopathology.
v.	Hypothetical vision of iv. being linked in a continuous strip, i.e., suspension1, reduction2, reconstitution3, suspension2, etc., with a reduplication in linear function(?).

13.	That in the treatment of a complex psychiatric picture the relatively lower levels of the psyche should be given a greater degree of emphasis. E.g., if a schizophrenic has a pronounced depression that aspect of the disorder should be given priority (lest that person attempts some form of suicide). In a schizo-affective disorder with a pronounced hypomanic component all forms of cognitive disorder are more likely to be acted out because of the former. On the other hand it might be possible for that same person to successfully modify their behaviour in public given a rectification of the affective component (e.g., through an encapsulation and non-publication of bizarre content in non-therapeutic forms of public discourse).

14.	Possibility through sub-induction of normal or disturbed structural-processes on one level of consciousness to replicate themselves on a lower level, or through super-induction to replicate themselves on a higher level of psychological organization. Suggested is that disturbances of a certain polarity on one level to induce the same type of fundamental disturbance on some other level, e.g., paranoid cognitive emphasis on reduction to re-manifest itself as a form of depression on the affective level; a hypomanic component to exaggerate a labile sociopathy?

15. Need to differentiate various psychoses. E.g., why do organic psychoses more often present visual disturbances rather than just auditory hallucinations?
	This could present a differential test for and between psychoses, and other conditions, by the induction of a state of hallucinosis through sleep deprivation and an evaluation of the time necessary for the manifestation of the same on the assumption that the psychotic or potentially psychotic subject is more pre-disposed towards the manifestation of the same? Could the theoretical lower threshold for the same ethically present a diagnostic test for the same.

16.	A recognition of the bifurcation of interpretive processes and forms of expression in psychotically influenced or pre-disposed subjects.

2.	Miscellaneous Grounds For Integrating This Schema

1.	The need to distinctively treat mental disturbances and also interrelate, and accommodate, same.

2.	A need to relate neuroses and psychoses at the same time to define their apparent exclusivity.

3.	A need to relate, and define, sociopathy as a form of psychosis through the observation that a lack of insight, and self-rectification, is generally demonstrated in this condition.

4.	An overall need to accommodate all forms of mental disorder as a particular disorder of aspects of the psyche already systematically accounted for. 

5.	The recognition of the economy achieved through the use of our metaphors of the `vertical axis' and `horizontal axis' coupled with this concept of being `locked into' and `locked out' of the suspension as expressed in the hermeneutic process.

6.	A general need to relatively ground what was essentially an ad hoc descriptive system of classifications, however well established, or not, phenomenologically.

7.	The creation of a relatively more systematic apparatus for the differentiation and treatment of psychiatric disorders.

8.	Need to establish some chemical-physiological basis for types of disturbed phenomena.

General Schema to Differentiate Possible Mental Disorders

I - Psychoses
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Archetypal			Disorder In Accordance With Level
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Suspension

Simple

	Reduction					Reconstitution
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Transcendental					(Psychopathology)
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Fantasy

Simple

	Political					Labile
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Cognitive						(Schizophrenic)
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Catatonic

Simple

	Paranoid					Hebephrenic
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Affective (Motor-Sensory)		(Affective Disorders)
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Agitated

Simple

	Endogenous					Hypomanic
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Physiological Sub-Inductions 

II - A Parallel Schematization Of Neuroses

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Neurotic Transcendental Characterization taking the form of an inability to enter the transcendental and therein entertain relatively non-distorted processes of judgment with as a consequence the accumulation of prejudices, an attitude of bigotry, and tendencies for aggression in the pursuit of power, status and privilege(?).

Non-Determination

Simple

	Focal Bias 							Bigotry
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Neurotic Cognitive Characterization through being locked out of suspension in the preconstitution of the cognitive with a sub-inductional affective component, generally insightful.

Indecisiveness

Simple

	Obsessive					Compulsion
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Neurotic Affective Characterization taking the form of affective states mirroring the affective-psychotic, namely, simple, indeterminate mood, panic attacks, fears and phobias, etc.

Indetermination Of Mood

Simple

	Fears - Phobias			Panic Attacks-Anxiety

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	To conclude I would like to note the provisional nature of this systematic typology and that, should it have some form of merit, much further work needs to be done to clarify its distinctive phenomenologies and strategies for interpretive translations of disturbed states. Insight in all its modes of determination and application can not be the province of any one party through the necessary cooperation of all relevant factors and should be, progressively, the goal for all parties participating in that process of self-appreciation along with its powers of self-recreation, self-evaluation and self-revaluation! In this task, no doubt, a hermeneutic recreation of sense and reference allows one to appreciate insightfully the degree of conformation resident in that articulation of sense. An existentialization of value taking place in the rectification of conformational distance through its minimization. Therein interpretive-insight and self-value flow together, wax and wane together, and, moment to moment, self-enrich our reading of that situation in its situatedness in accordance with its perceived concordance. The insightfulness of insight recognizing the conformation of re-constructed metaphorical material to hand in such a manner that an identity is perceived between `the reference of its sense' and `the sense of that reference.' Insight allowing us to see into the phenomenal constitution of that under investigation through a reconstruction of significance re-created through its reconstitutional simulation. Therein a dream is seen as a dream, a wishful desire is seen as a wishful desire, a perception is seen as a perception, a thought is seen as a thought, a judgment is seen as a judgment, a value is seen as a value, the value of that value is seen for the value of that value, namely, our insight into its conformation with the reality of its own re-presented reality. Re-presented but never represented! Re-simulated through the simulation of its own simulation. Insight allowing us to directly apperceive the conformational re-creation of its own processes of simulation. The necessary involvement of a meta-text implicating a social dimension, our transcendental transcendence of the textual-metatextual relationship implying our direct experience of the immanence of that phenomenon under the appreciation of our insightful recognition. Calming the mind through suspension and discerning the real through transcendental apperception, their conjunction realizing the conformational nature of insight along with the full existentialization of value that effortlessly and spontaneously flows from such concordance!