Some relationships between speech defects,musical disability,scholastic attainment and maladjustment

Aristotle coined the term entelechy to describe the processes of nature. Burke extends entelechy to the realm of human symbolic action. Burke implicitly recognizes the possibility of a type of entelechy that might be called psychotic entelechy as early as his first book of criticism. Although Burke does not use the term psychotic entelechy, the concept exists implicitly in Burke's discussion of entelechy.

Biblical scholar James D. Tabor claims that the 1993 Branch Davidian disaster could have been avoided. Burkean entelechial methods are used here to critique the socio‐political tragedy known as Waco. Burkean‐style methods of curing psychotic entelechy were actually being used to attempt to avert the tragedy.