A new and extremely interesting conception of schizophrenia is opened up by the observation of the sign of dys-symbole made by Skottowe. He has defined this sign as “a state of mind which manifests itself by the inability of the patient to formulate his conceptual thoughts upon personal topics or to discriminate the gradations of his emotions in language which is intelligible to others, notwithstanding that he may be in a state of clear consciousness, while he still retains word-utilizing ability at the level of perceptual thinking, and so is not aphasic in terms of sensori-motor neurology”.