Schizophrenia Bulletin
August 19, 2020
Karina Stengaard Kamp, Edith Maria Steffen, Ben Alderson-Day et al.
67 citations
Bereaved people often report having sensory and quasi-sensory experiences of the deceased (SED), and there is an ongoing debate over whether SED are associated with pathology, such as grief complications. Research into these experiences has been conducted in various disciplines, including psychiatry, psychology, and anthropology, without much crossover. This review brings these areas of...
The Oxford Handbook of Phenomenological Psychopathology
July 4, 2019
Matthew Ratcliffe
This article explores the phenomenology of auditory verbal hallucinations (AVHs), while also stressing the indispensability of phenomenological research to a wider understanding of these phenomena. I begin by making clear that the kinds of experience routinely labeled as “AVHs” are diverse and that many of them are not at all like hearing someone speak. I then note that AVHs in psychiatric...
Ideas y Valores
May 1, 2018
Matthew Ratcliffe, Juan Diego Bogotá
2 citations
Introducción a la traducciónEn "El sentimiento de ser", publicado en Journal of Consciousness Studies 12.8-10 (2005): 45-63, Matthew Ratcliffe introduce por primera vez el concepto de "sentimiento existencial", que desde entonces ha ido ganando interés entre los filósofos dedicados al estudio de las emociones y los fenómenos afectivos en general, especialmente aquellos que tienen afinidad con...
Real Hallucinations
September 15, 2017
Matthew Ratcliffe
This chapter widens the scope of the discussion, to include types of hallucination not so far considered. It begins by drawing on Merleau-Ponty’s remarks on hallucination in Phenomenology of Perception, in order to identify a type of experience that differs both from orthodox hallucination and from the kinds of experience described in earlier chapters. The chapter goes on to consider auditory...
Real Hallucinations
September 15, 2017
Matthew Ratcliffe
This chapter introduces some of the central concepts, themes, and issues addressed in the book. First of all, it discusses the concept of ‘minimal self’ and its recent application to schizophrenia and auditory verbal hallucination (AVH). Then it raises the question of whether minimal self includes only the sense of having some kind of experience or, in addition, a more specific sense of the...
Psychopathology
2017
Louis Sass, Matthew Ratcliffe
"Atmospheric" alterations are key aspects of altered subjectivity in mental disorder. Karl Jaspers famously described the "delusional mood": a sense of uncanny salience and ominousness that often precedes the onset of schizophrenic psychosis or of delusions. Such experiences, he writes, involve "a transformation in our total awareness of reality" that often verges on ineffability. In...
World Psychiatry
June 1, 2015
Matthew Ratcliffe
16 citations
Sass and Byrom 1 do a fine job in explaining the phenomenological approach to delusions, linking themes in phenomenological psychopathology to work on predictive coding, and emphasizing the heterogeneity of delusional experience. Delusions, they maintain, presuppose more enveloping changes in a person's sense of self, body, and world. In this commentary, I will address a theme that is not so...
Emotion Review
April 1, 2012
Giovanna Colombetti, Matthew Ratcliffe
This paper addresses the phenomenology of bodily feeling in depersonalization disorder. We argue that not all bodily feelings are intentional states that have the body or part of it as their object. We distinguish three broad categories of bodily feeling: noematic feeling, noetic feeling, and existential feeling. Then we show how an appreciation of the differences between them can contribute to...
Religious Studies
September 1, 2003
Matthew Ratcliffe
In this paper, I consider V. S. Ramachandran's in-principle agnosticism concerning whether neurological studies of religious experience can be taken as support for the claim that God really does communicate with people during religious experiences. Contra Ramachandran, I argue that it is by no means obvious that agnosticism is the proper scientific attitude to adopt in relation to this claim. I...