Imagination is part of ordinary psychic life, but, in somewhat distorted forms, also an aspect of different key psychopathological concepts and hence of immediate clinical importance. In this review, we present principal findings from clinical psychopathological research examining basic disturbances of imagination in the schizophrenia spectrum, obsessive symptoms, and related phenomena in other...
Poor insight is a core feature of schizophrenia and empirical studies have demonstrated associations with important symptom domains, cognitive functions, and clinical outcomes. While recent explanatory accounts mostly focus on neuro-, social-, or meta-cognitive deficits, a complementary model from phenomenological psychopathology suggests that impaired insight in schizophrenia is tied to...
Disordered selfhood in schizophrenia was rediscovered at the turn of the millennium. In 2005, Psychopathology published the psychometric instrument, the Examination of Anomalous Self-Experience (EASE). In this article, we summarize the historical background of the creation of the EASE, explicate the notion of the disorder of basic or minimal self with the help of phenomenological philosophy,...