Open AccessSelf-Disturbance in Schizophrenia
Author(s) -
Rob de Vries,
Henriëtte D. Heering,
Lot Postmes,
Saskia Goedhart,
Herman N. Sno,
Lieuwe de Haan
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
primary care companion to cns disorders/the primary care companion for cns disorders
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2155-7772
pISSN - 2155-7780
DOI - 10.4088/pcc.12m01382
Subject(s) - schizophrenia (object oriented programming) , psychology of self , psychology , experiential learning , perception , phenomenology (philosophy) , psychotherapist , social psychology , psychiatry , epistemology , neuroscience , pedagogy , philosophy
A phenomenological approach explains the apparently unintelligible experiences of patients with schizophrenia as a disruption of the normal self-perception. Patients with schizophrenia suffer from a decline of "me," the background core of their experiences. Normally tacit experiences intrude into the forefront of their attention, and the sense that inner-world experiences are private diminishes. These patients lose the sense that they are the origin of their thoughts and actions; their self-evident network of meanings and a solid foundation of life disintegrate. Subsequently, their experiential world is transformed, alienated, intruded, and fragmented. In this article, a phenomenological investigation of the self-experiences and actions of 4 patients with schizophrenia is presented.