This paper reviews studies on familiarity of mental illness to determine the relationships that
familiarity has with public stigma. We propose a U-shaped relationship between familiarity …

Individuals with schizophrenia-spectrum disorders face profound challenges as they attempt
to maintain identity through the course of illness. Narrative identity—the study of internalized …

A robust empirical literature suggests that individual differences in the thematic and
structural aspects of life narratives are associated with and predictive of psychological well …

Recovery, Meaning-Making, and Severe Mental Illness offers practitioners an integrative
treatment model that will stimulate and harness their creativity, allowing for the formation of …

Abstract Models of schizophrenia, which focus exclusively on discrete symptoms and
neurocognitive deficits, risk missing the possibility that a core feature of the disorder involves …

Objective: Impairments in laboratory tasks of metacognition appear to be associated with
symptoms, functioning, and neurocognition in schizophrenia. We sought to replicate these …

Internalized stigma has been suggested to play a major role in negative changes in identity
in severe mental illness. Evidence suggests that roughly one-third of people with severe …

While it has been documented that persons with prolonged schizophrenia have deficits in
metacognition and social cognition, it is less clear whether these difficulties are already …

Research has indicated that many with schizophrenia experience deficits in metacognitive
capacity, defined as impairments in the ability to think about thinking. These difficulties are …

This study examined narrative identity in a group of 81 patients with schizophrenia and 50
healthy controls through the recall of self-defining memories. The results indicated that …