Dialogue with Sammy Author:Joyce McDougall and Serge Lebovici Schizophrenia is the term psychiatrists use to describe Sammy's illness. They see his loss of contact with reality, the disintegration of his personality, and his tendency toward hallucination as symptoms of one of the most common forms of psychotic behavior. — But Sammy is a very real nine-year-old boy, not a clinical statistic. And Dialogue w... more »ith Sammy is his own moving story in which he acts out in the office of his analyst his fears and anxieties and the all too human needs for creativity and self-expression.« less