Schizophrenia, Psychedelics, and Sense of Self: Comparison of Phenomenology and Neural Correlates
PsyArXiv November 5, 2025 Arthur Hamilton preprint
The relationship between schizophrenia and psychedelic drug states has long attracted scholarly interest and psychedelics have sometimes been described as psychotomimetic. Sense of self can be understood as the feeling of “mineness” that normally characterizes all experiences. In both schizophrenia and psychedelic experiences, alterations to sense of self are present and correlate with clinical...