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Schizophrenic children show particular difficulty in determining their 'ego boundaries'—there is an indefiniteness and blurring of the line of demarcation between their own bodies and the outside world. After electroshock therapy, regressive features (perseveration, etc.) mark the dissolution of the body image,
but re-creative tendencies follow. 'A stage of crystallization has been changed into an amorphous stage from which new constructions are possible.' Fundamentally, patterns of cerebral activity underlie these phenomena.