Speech Changes, Causes, and Treatments of Alogia

5. Example of Poverty of Content

Statements that qualify as poverty of content are almost the opposite of poverty of speech. While the words are coherent and may make sense on a surface level, they lack any real meaning. For example, there is an account of a patient speaking about schizophrenia who states that he, “Would like to see schizophrenia not used as a diagnosis but instead allow full integrity or half-integrity by calling it (1) insomnia after admission or (2) a poem with one-way signs to stop ankle wear and tear.”