The fundamental work for a new psychological understanding of schizophrenic disorders: A cognitive theory of neuroses based on memory psychology for the first time leads to the knowledge of neurotic-psychotic developments as a result of the Overencoding of irrational neurotic attitude structures in memory. They lead to one-sided search processes in the memory and provoke extremely irrational (delusional) processing errors and further overneurotic changes in the thinking, feeling and acting of the schizophrenic. A comparison with the disturbable artificial intelligence of an Internet search engine serves to illustrate memory-psychological connections. A four-stage psychotherapy of schizophrenic disorders based on the Overencoding theory is presented in contrast to conventional neurosis therapy and discussed in an article by Prof. Manfred Bleuler.

Dieter K. Christmann is a german graduate psychologist. He has been working on his Overencoding theory of neurotic-psychotic developments for more than four decades. He found early support from Prof. Manfred Bleuler (deceased in 1994), who in 1986, in an international handbook of schizophrenia research, emphasized the compatibility of Christmann's schizophrenia theory with his Dysharmonie Theory and his lifelong clinical experience.