In foundational texts on schizophrenia, the mental disorder was constitutively linked to a
specific disintegration of subjectivity (often termed a self-disorder). Apart from Scharfetter's …

Obsessive-compulsive symptoms are frequent in schizophrenia-spectrum disorders and
often cause differential diagnostic challenges, especially in first-contact patients. Drawing …

The extremes of human experiences, such as those occasioned by classic psychedelics and
psychosis, provide a rich contrast for understanding how components of these experiences …

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

Suffering holds a central place within pain research, theory, and practice. However, the
construct of pain-related suffering has yet to be operationalized by the International …

Traditional psychopathological approaches to modelling the evolution of mental disorders,
such as schizophrenia, often rest on the assumption that symptoms are the passive …

Abstract Background and Hypothesis The idea that a disorder of the basic self is a central
feature in schizophrenia has recently been corroborated in a meta-analysis and a systematic …

The concept of basic Self-disorders (SD) captures the experiential aspects associated with
vulnerability to schizophrenia spectrum disorders (SSD). SD emerge prior to, and constitute …

Background Basic self-disturbance, or anomalous self-experiences (ASEs), is a core feature
of the schizophrenia spectrum. We propose a novel method of natural language processing …

Background Language impairments are key features of schizophrenia spectrum disorders,
and have also been suggested to signal enhanced psychosis risk. Incoherence, derailment …