DRAMATIZING PSYCHOTIC

a psychotic who dramatizes (repeats in action what has happened in experience; replays something out of its time and period) one type of facsimile only. See also psychotic in this glossary. —PDC Volume 3 Approved Glossary

the dramatizing psychotic is not always looked upon as insane. Whether or not he is classified as insane depends upon whether or not he is of obvious menace to other Homo sapiens. He is fixed in one facsimile which he plays over and over to the environment around him. He is controlled by his environment to the extent that anything in his environment turns on his dramatization. He is disastrous to have around. Inaccessible persons passing for normals are sometimes dramatizing psychotics who dramatize infrequently—perhaps only once or twice a day. The dramatizing psychotic lives mainly in the illusion of his own facsimile with its surroundings, not actual surroundings. He is definitely not in present time at any time. (AP&A, p. 38)