Controlled psychopathology (processed dementia)

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In the literature of psychosis are a number of attributes one may use (or can use) to describe psychotic behavior, and I’ll use the term process psychosis here as it allows for a determination I’m going to suggest.
 
Process Psychosis is called by various names  -- schizophreniform, pseudoschizophrenias, and the once-used dementia praecox (which I prefer, like manic-depression from the old-school of terminologies).
 
And the “process” which is dementia, but one that recurs or goes away sporadically.
 
The overall symptomology offers utterances, actions, writings and other activities that hark back to former and/or imagined happenings, some creative and some seen as abnormal or “insane” (as Thomas Szasz rebuked).
 
Some of the “normal” progenitors, as I see it, include(d) Ezekiel, the early Hebrew prophet, Cervantes (Don Quixote), Jonathan Swift, Franz Kafka, van Gogh, and Philip K. Dick of our time.
 
Among flying saucer/UFO notables, I wouldn’t include George Adamski, but would allow that some contactees (See Nick Redfern’s book by that title) like Orfeo Angelucci, Truman  Bethurum, as process psychotics.
 
This goes to a comment earlier here by John Sawyer in an aside about Shirley Wright, the maligned, interviewed “assistant” to Albert Einstein whose story about being at a confab with the great scientist where a crashed UFO and alien bodies with one living creature were on display, the details of her story seeming to be about the 1947 Roswell incident.
 
John Sawyer’s inclination was that Ms. Wright was too young (64) at the time of the interview and too lucid to indicate dementia.
 
But, in fact, she was ideal for such an etiology. She was stressed by various interactions in her life that could provoke a semi-psychosis, a proves psychosis, not one like that produced fictively as Kafka did but in the same vein psychologically.
 
Unfortunately, a follow-up is out of the question as Ms. Wright is now deceased, and her interviewer was not, as far as I know, trained to see elements of dementia or the subtleties of process psychosis.
 
But the possibility that what we’re hearing in the questioned Wright’s admittedly fantastic or fanciful tale is a believed, by her, activity in her past that came forward as part of a slide – temporary or permanent we cannot know – into dementia, real or processed.
 
This is why I lean toward a meaningful and open evaluation of the interview, not a closed-minded determination because one finds the account wanting in believability.
 
We’ll see if the matter goes on or if it fades from interest amongst ufologists because it’s a psychiatric event, not a bona fide UFO remembrance.

RR