Background: Research on basic self-disorders (BSD) has expanded since the introduction of the Examination of Anomalous Self-Experience (EASE). Although originally formulated as characterizing schizophrenia spectrum disorders, EASE-defined BSD have been reported in other psychiatric conditions and in individuals at clinical high-risk for psychosis (CHR-P), raising questions about their...
Abnormal self-experiences are a common feature of major depression despite their absence from current diagnostic manuals. Current diagnostic criteria leave us with an impoverished conception of depressive disorders, and they fail to exploit the diverse experiential alterations that might be useful for understanding and diagnosing patients, and last but not least for explaining the aetiology of...
Psychosis is the most ineffable experience of mental disorder. We provide here the first co-written bottom-up review of the lived experience of psychosis, whereby experts by experience primarily selected the subjective themes, that were subsequently enriched by phenomenologically-informed perspectives. First-person accounts within and outside the medical field were screened and discussed in...