Many authors claim that being conscious constitutively involves being self-conscious, or
conscious of oneself. This claim appears to be threatened by reports of 'selfless' episodes, or …

Enactive approaches to psychiatry have recently argued for an understanding of psychiatric
conditions based within relational interactions between individuals and their environments …

Abstract Concepts such as “symbolism” and “symbolic cognition” often remain unspecified in
discussions the symbolic capacities of earlier hominins. In this paper, I use conceptual tools …

Understanding alterations of selfhood (termed self-disorders or self-disturbances) that are
considered typical of the schizophrenia-spectrum is a central focus of phenomenological …

Background Persons with profound and multiple learning disabilities (PMLD) risk exclusion,
both in research and as members of society. Because of their embodied communication …

According to some, there is a problem concerning the emotions we feel toward fictional
entities such as Anna Karenina, Werther and the like. We feel pity, fear, and sadness toward …

The recent book by Landgrebe and Smith (2022) offers compelling arguments against the
possibility of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) as well as against the idea that machines …

The purpose of the following article is to provide an account for some recent developments
in phenomenological psychological interviewing as it relates to the phenomenological …

The neural underpinnings of selfhood encompass pre-reflective and reflective self-
experience. The former refers to a basic, immediate experience of being a self, while the …

The human need to find meaning in life and the human need for connection may be two
sides of the same coin, a coin forged in the developmental crucible of attachment. Our need …