The purpose of the present article is to consider schizophrenia—the very idea—from the
perspective of phenomenological psychopathology, with special attention to the problematic …

Phenomenological psychiatry has suffered from a failure to translate its insights into terms
specific enough to be applied to psychiatric diagnosis or to be used in contemporary …

A growing body of research supports the role of self-disorders as core phenotypic features of
schizophrenia-spectrum conditions. Self-disorders comprise various alterations of conscious …

Is phenomenological psychopathology purely descriptive or can it also have explanatory
relevance? This question is addressed in relation to schizophrenia and by focusing on a …

In recent years, there has been much focus on the apparent heterogeneity of schizophrenic
symptoms. By contrast, this article proposes a unifying account emphasizing basic …

This chapter offers an overview of the self-disorder or ipseity-disturbance model of
schizophrenia, focusing on recent developments. According to this model, the foundational …

This article presents an introductory overview of the interpretations of schizophrenia offered
by three phenomenological psychiatrists: Eugene Minkowski (1885-1972), Wolfgang …

The present chapter offers a unifying but nonreductive interpretation of schizophrenia, one
that attempts to show how the diverse signs and symptoms of this illness may all be rooted in …

Psychiatry is in a time of crisis. The absence of significant breakthroughs to actionable
etiological knowledge has left the discipline in a state of uncertainty and worries are being …

The purpose of this essay is to examine the structure of the so-called" minimal self"(the most
basic or primitive form of self) and to address the limits of such a minimalist account in …