GABELS MICRO MACRO BRIDGE - THE SCHIZOPHRENIC PROCESS WRIT LARGE/

Joseph Gabel's theoretical synthesis of psychiatry, political sociolog y, the sociology of knowledge, and Marxism is examined partly by evalu ating the use he makes of ideas common to the works of Lukacs, Mannhei m, Minkowski, Binswanger, Dupreel, Lalo, Meyerson, and others. Gabel's major contention-that false consciousness and schizophrenia are mutua lly illuminating phenomena at analytic and empirical levels-is conside red, principally by hermeneutic analysis of his key concepts: ''de-dia lecticization,'' ''reified consciousness,'' ''socio-pathological paral lelism,'' and so on. His work is contextualized among competing theori es of ideological expressiveness and collectively significant cognitiv e distortions of reality.