Bleuler suggested that fragmentation of thought, emotion and volition were the unifying
feature of the disorders he termed schizophrenia. In this paper we review research seeking …

Contemporary researchers have tended to examine dysfunction among the lives of persons
with schizophrenia as a matter of the impact of biological and social forces. While this has …

Many contemporary conceptions of the self are, often unwittingly, based on Cartesian
notions of the mind as individualized, ahistorical, noncultural, disembodied, and centralized …

The dialogical self works as a society with oppositions, conflicts, negotiations, cooperation
and coalitions between positions. As society becomes more heterogeneous, more relatively …

In the forty-odd years since the publication of Austin's How to Do Things with Words (1962),
pragmatics has proven itself to be in equal measures indispensable and frustrating …

Insight in schizophrenia tends to be assessed as the degree to which one possesses
specific knowledge. It therefore often fails to account for the fact that awareness of illness is …

There is nearly universal acceptance that persons with schizo-phrenia often experience a
profound disruption in their basic sense of self. But what does this disruption in sense of self …

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 …

Many adults who experience severe mental illness also suffer from deficits in metacognition-
put simply, thinking about one's own thought processes-limiting their abilities to recognize …

Vulnerability, scar, and reciprocal-relations models of depressive symptoms and self-esteem
were compared among people with severe mental illness (SMI; N= 260) participating in a …