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‘[Heart] Fibrillation is a disorder of a complex system, just as mental disorders – whether or not they have chemical roots – are disorders of a complex system.’*

‘They made Poincaré maps and circle maps.’** (my emphasis) What?

‘Now some physiologists speak of dynamical diseases: disorders of systems, breakdowns in co-ordination or control. “Systems that normally oscillate, stop oscillating, or begin to oscillate in a new and unexpected fashion, and systems that normally do not oscillate, begin oscillating’, was one formulation. … Some scientist speculate that schizophrenia*** itself might belong in this category, along with some forms of depression.’****

*Ibid [Gleick, ‘Chaos, Making a New Science’, Heinemann, London, 1988], 284

**Ibid, 290

***[See eg [Redbook4:225-229][19871214:2010c]{Schizophrenia (1)}[14th December 1987]; &

[Redbook5:156-160][19880615:1642b]{Schizophrenia and Manic Depression (1)}[15^th June 1988]]

[See next entry]

****Ibid, p292

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