The Loeb-Leopold case - The Clarence Darrow Collection

The Loeb-Leopold Case
being the resultants of his mental activity. In this
category must be included the activities of the involun-
tary muscles and glands, which cooperate in every ac-
tivity of the body, and play an especially prominent
role in such as are accompanied by emotion.
Then it is further said here:
The intelligence of schizophrenic persons is usually
good and is often above the average. Indeed, it seems
probable that high grade intelligence is necessary for
the development of this mode of reaction. In certain
respects, the reactions are exaggerations or caricatures
of the modification of primitive instinctive adjustments
that make social existence possible and that is brought
about by the evolution of symbolic thinking.
The facts are usually far better explained by recognizing
that there has been a failure to establish memories
or associations (intellectual deficiency) as a result of the
unusually early and extensive development of a tendency
to autism which we shall discuss shortly. Typically,
perception and the formation of memories with clear
grasp and orientation are fully up to the average. The
trouble lies not in the quality of the intellectual tools,
but in the use that is made of them.
Again you have a statement in Singer and Krohn's
own book that the fact that judgment was pos-
sessed, orientation was possessed, memory was pos-
sessed, is no indication that in Loeb there are not
the schizophrenic tendencies developing into a
psychosis.
I continue reading from this volume, published at
a very appropriate time:
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