A Phenomenological Test of a Theory of Depersonalization
British Journal of Psychiatry June 1, 1967 N. L. Gittleson
The view that depersonalization experiences can “be regarded as occupying a position somewhere between the delusional and the non-delusional” was first suggested by Ackner (1954) who gave as an example the depressive's experience of malaise. If this is accepted into the normal framework of experience it will be attributed to illness or fatigue. If it is accepted and organized into a delusional...