Basic iru* (IuRuAc)

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This is a relatively uncommon pattern because so many people with this adjustment are untestable. In the extreme, it is a classic, catatonic schizophrenic adjustment. The iru* is an immature primitive IRA who has reacted against his surface social adjustment. He is negativistic, resistant to, and an defiant of; attempts to relate to him. This negativism usually takes the form of personal isolation and autistic withdrawal. In most cases, the iru* will have shown signs of childhood schizophrenia, and will have been considered abnormal for some time. Severe temper tantrums, followed by withdrawal, are characteristics of extreme forms of this adjustment. Hallucinations rarely occur in this pattern, but frustration and thwarting often lead to combative and assaultive reactions.