Catchwords persist; many persons still consider the term 'schizophrenia' a mere substitute for the older 'dementia praecox', applying the Kraepelinian principle of prognosis. Few recall that Bleuler, in changing the clinical designation, emphasized that affectivity is never lost and that we can never be sure the patient is not amenable to treatment. Even the term 'pseudoneurotic schizophrenia' seems to suggest that we can distinguish by their symptoms between a neurosis of good prognosis and a psychosis (schizophrenia) of bad prognosis.

'Borderline cases' and 'pseudoneurotic schizophrenias' the author prefers to call 'ambulatory schizophrenias'. Regardless of label, these seem to be cases of some transitional or intermediary type. Ambulatory schizophrenias, regardless of the particular type of symptoms and regardless of the inability to produce free