People with a diagnosis of schizophrenia are thought to experience a „loss‟ of self,
theoretically assumed to be the direct result of their „disease‟ or mental illness. This …

Objectives. Lysaker and Lysaker (Theory and Psychology, 12 (2), 207–220, 2002) employ a
dialogical theory of self in their writings on self disruption in schizophrenia. It is argued here …

A phenomenological qualitative study of how people diagnosed with schizophrenia
experience the'self'was undertaken with four persons diagnosed with schizophrenia. Over …

A qualitative methodology was employed to explore the narratives of clients with a diagnosis
of schizophrenia. These were used to obtain a subjective perspective on the course of …

This research focuses not on the diagnosis, aetiology and psychopharmacology of
schizophrenia, but on the experiences of receiving an unwanted diagnosis of schizophrenia …

LOSS OF THE SELF has long been considered a core component of schizophrenia
(Auerbach and Blatt 1996; Davidson and Strauss 1992). Most theories of the disorder …

Objectives: Investigation of ilIocutionary and perlocutionary effects of linguistic presentations
of the diagnosis of schizophrenia, on the patients' self-concept, which may have significant …

This paper takes a discourse analytic approach to the construction of identities formed
through reception of a psychiatric diagnosis (I will refer to these as" diagnostic identities" …

'Schizophrenia'can do things other than diagnose or stigmatize those so defined in that it
can serve various forms of social action. Two hundred and fifty-eight randomly selected …

IN RECENT years, researchers have explored the subjective experience of patients
diagnosed as schizophrenic and its transformation throughout the course of schizophrenia …