In foundational texts on schizophrenia, the mental disorder was constitutively linked to a
specific disintegration of subjectivity (often termed a self-disorder). Apart from Scharfetter's …

Learning Objectives: After participating in this activity, learners should be better able to: 1.
Assess anomalous self-experience as a core feature of schizophrenia spectrum disorders. 2 …

Psychosis is the most ineffable experience of mental disorder. We provide here the first co‐
written bottom‐up review of the lived experience of psychosis, whereby experts by …

Phenomenology: The Basics is a concise and engaging introduction to one of the dominant
philosophical movements of the 20th century. This lively and lucid book provides an …

Max van Manen and Jonathan Smith have recently had an exchange in Qualitative Health
Research concerning their respective use of phenomenology. I welcome the attempt to get …

Nursing studies have for decades drawn on the philosophical tradition of phenomenology
when develo** their own methodology and theoretical foundation. This use and …

Introduction Phenomenological research indicates that disturbance of the basic sense of self
may be a core phenotypic marker of schizophrenia spectrum disorders. Basic self …

Abstract Introduction: Self-disorders (SD) have been described as a core feature of
schizophrenia both in classical and recent psychopathological literature. However, the …

Self-disorders have been proposed as the “clinical core” of the schizophrenia spectrum. This
has been explored in recent studies using self-disorder assessment tools. However, there …

Various forms of anomalous self-experience can be seen as central to schizophrenia and
other psychiatric disorders. We examined similarities and differences between anomalous …