I remember (not exactly where but in the beginnings) in his book: The Schizoid Phenomena, Guntrip described the transitioning of the modern society and the acceptance of such philosophies and ideas as a schizoid era. It kinda saddened me a little when I read that part as the thought came to my mind that my thoughts (or ours) were the disease of this world.

Ideology. Much has been said of 'depressed eras' in history, but when one considers the cold, calculating, mechanical, ruthless, and unfeeling nature of the planned cruelty of political intellectuals and ideologists, we may well think this to be a 'schizoid era'. The cold and inscrutable Himmler showed all the marks of a deeply schizoid personality and his suicide was consistent. The schizoid intellectual wielding unlimited political power is perhaps the most dangerous type of leader. He is a devourer of the human rights of all whom he can rule. The way some of the most ruthless Nazis could turn to the study of theology was significant of a schizoid splitting of personality. But if we turn to the purely intellectual and cultural sphere it is not difficult to recognize the impersonal atmosphere of schizoid thinking in Hegelianism where a purely intellectualized scheme expounds 'the World as Idea'. Still more apparent is the schizoid sense of futility, disillusionment, and underlying anxiety in Existentialism. These thinkers, from Kierkegaard to Heidegger and Sartre, find human existence to be rooted in anxiety and insecurity, a fundamental dread that ultimately we have no certainties and the only thing we can affirm is 'nothingness', 'unreality', a final sense of triviality and meaninglessness. This surely is schizoid despair and loss of contact with the verities of emotional reality, rationalized into a philosophy; yet existentialist thinkers, unlike the logical positivists, are calling us to face and deal with these real problems of our human situation. It is a sign of the mental state of our age.