Elizabeth Alphonsus

They have taken out my spinal cord: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of self-boundary in psychotic experience within a sociocentric culture.

Frontiers in Psychiatry July 20, 2023 Elizabeth Alphonsus, Lisa C. Fellin, Samuel Thoma et al. 4 citations

Introduction: In the tradition of phenomenological psychiatry, schizophrenia is described as a disturbance of the minimal self, i.e. the most basic form of self-awareness. This disturbance of the minimal self at the individual level is assumed to precede the intersubjective disturbances such as boundary weakening. However, the role of intersubjective disturbances in the emergence and recovery...