A disturbance of "minimal self," - of the immediate sense of mine-ness inherent in experience-is hypothesized to be the core disturbance in schizophrenia. Research with the Examination of Anomalous Self Experience (EASE) has demonstrated the selective aggregation of anomalous self-experiences in the schizophrenia spectrum. Conceptual research suggests that anomalous world experiences, including...
Contemporary psychiatric nosology has evolved with a primary goal of reducing the presence and influence of subjectivity by valuing objective symptoms and explanations (e.g. neurobiological models of psychopathology). However, improvements in the reliability and validity of these endeavours have fallen short of expectations, and it has been argued that one reason for these failures is the very...
Anomalous self-experiences (ASEs), presumably involving alterations in "core" or "minimal self," have been studied as manifest in schizophrenia and its spectrum, in contrast with mood disorder and personality disorder samples. This is the first study to examine ASEs in panic disorder (PD), beginning the exploration of these disturbances of subjectivity in anxiety disorders. We aimed to clarify...