PsyCh journal
March 1, 2019
Brice Martin, Nicolas Franck, Anne Giersch
14 citations
Phenomenologists have provided a detailed description of the disorders of the subjective experience associated with minimal-self disorders in patients with schizophrenia. Those patients report a range of distortions of their conscious experiences, including a sense of inner void, confusion between self and others, and, sometimes, a disruption of the sense of time. These reports have been...
April 1, 2018
Anne Giersch, Brice Martin, Michel Cermolacce et al.
Background The feeling of being one continuous individual in time is a natural evidence, which seems to be lost for patients with schizophrenia who display ‘minimal’ or ‘bodily’ self disorders. The continuity in time is a property of the ‘minimal’ self and its alteration could disrupt the sense of self. It has long been proposed that patients with schizophrenia experience a breakdown of the...
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
2018
Brice Martin, Nicolas Franck, Michel Cermolacce et al.
32 citations
For years, phenomenological psychiatry has proposed that distortions of the temporal structure of consciousness contribute to the abnormal experiences described before schizophrenia emerges, and may relate to basic disturbances in consciousness of the self. However, considering that temporality refers mainly to an implicit aspect of our relationship with the world, disturbances in the temporal...
Frontiers in Psychology
2014
Brice Martin, Marc Wittmann, Nicolas Franck et al.
87 citations
The concept of the minimal self refers to the consciousness of oneself as an immediate subject of experience. According to recent studies, disturbances of the minimal self may be a core feature of schizophrenia. They are emphasized in classical psychiatry literature and in phenomenological work. Impaired minimal self-experience may be defined as a distortion of one's first-person experiential...