Phenomenologically inspired qualitative methods in health research have spent decades seeking legitimacy within the evidence hierarchy by presenting themselves as rigorously inductive. This pursuit of legitimacy, we argue, has come at an epistemological cost: it obscures what these approaches actually do when they work at their best and forecloses their most radical potential. Drawing on...
The self and its disorders in schizophrenia have been studied extensively over recent decades. Much of this literature is grounded in a bipartite understanding of the self, distinguishing the pre-reflective, minimal self from the reflective, narrative self. However, few studies have systematically examined the links between disturbances at these two levels of self. This integrative review...