Study compared dream content of schizophrenic adolescent inpatients, adolescent inpatient s with other mental disorders, and community controls. Results suggest that psychopathology per se, rather than the specific psychiatric disturbance, may be associated with impoverishment of dream content; and that negative, rather than positive, schizophrenic symptomatology may be influential in the dream content of schizophrenic youngsters. (Contains 25 references and 1 table.) (Author)