Can psychiatry hinder intersubjectivity? A phenomenological critique of the biomedical conceptualization of anomalous experience.
Frontiers in Psychology 2025 Sabina Wantoch
This study examines the phenomenon of anomalous experiences. The term 'anomalous experience' refers to experiences often described as hallucinations and, more broadly, to the experiential dimensions of what is commonly referred to as psychosis. I present a critical analysis of the dominant clinical conceptualization of anomalous experience, which frames it as a 'pathology of the mind', by...