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March 17, 2001. Writing in the style of a fable, Martin Willick ( J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn. 49/1) recounts a tale about psychoanalysis and schizophrenia that contains a moral for contemporary analysts: It is important to distinguish between biological and psychological factors in the etiology of mental illness. Remarking that “there is perhaps no better example of a psychoanalytic theory that has turned out to be incorrect than the once prevalent theory regarding the etiology of schizophrenia” (p. 28), he tells the reader how “it came to pass” that a “Who's Who” of psychoanalysts