The mechanism operates through a feedback spiral:

"The psychotic's suppleance is the only ontology left." From my talk "Dreams, Delusions, and the Substitution of the Symbolic".

"If the classical shizo example from Deleuze and Guatari was instrumental for Land and the others, there seems to be a new psychotic wave taking place where the desire for deterritorialization has been substituted by the need to dream the 'dream in a very focused way'."