The “splitting” that characterizes schizophrenia is difficult to explain in the classical neurophysics context of nonlinear brain dynamics where compromise—the very antithesis of splitting—is fundamental. Hallucination and thought insertion become intelligible in the framework of thermofield brain dynamics (TBD). The clinical classification found in The diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (DSM) is of practical value but not founded on basic principles. TBD is able to generate common diagnoses in a systematic way as disorders of “self‐tuning” (autotonoesis). There is a major division between disintegrated self‐tuning (schizophrenia) and mistuned self‐ tuning (e.g. mood disorders). TBD consiliates clinical psychiatric phenomena and quantum brain theory.

DSM, quantum psychiatry, mental disorders, thermofield brain dynamics, quantum brain theory