Lorenz and Cobb subject to analysis comparative samplings of spoken language from ten manic patients and ten controls, with the idea that language is one major aspect of the total behavior pattern and might serve as a constructive indicator of what is going on in terms of thinking, feeling, and attitude. Their findings are that there is no basic alteration in the general structural framework of speech, but that the defect in mania occurs at a higher integrative level of language formulation. There was a tendency to