  A novel, nonperturbative, way to generate chiral symmetry breaking within the
linear sigma model for 3 flavours is discussed. After spontaneous chiral
symmetry breaking in the vacuum at the tree level the scalar nonet obtains
mass, while the pseudoscalars are massless. Then, including quantum loops in a
nonperturbative, self-consistent way chiral symmetry is broken by nonplanar
graphs in a second step, and also the pseudoscalars become massive. By
interpreting the basic symmetry to be a discrete permutation symmetry, in
accord with superselection rules, no additional Goldstone bosons are expected.
