Psychopathology
October 15, 2026
Luís Madeira, Cecilia Maria Esposito, Giovanni Stanghellini
Schizophrenia spectrum disorders, autism spectrum disorder, and psychopathy may resemble one another at the behavioural surface. All three may involve social difficulties, flattened or atypical affect, unusual communication, interpersonal friction, and impaired social adaptation. Yet their experiential architectures differ in ways that are clinically decisive for differential diagnosis, risk...
Psychopathology
2024
Milena Mancini, Cecilia Maria Esposito, Andrés Estradé et al.
6 citations
Abnormal self-experiences are a common feature of major depression despite their absence from current diagnostic manuals. Current diagnostic criteria leave us with an impoverished conception of depressive disorders, and they fail to exploit the diverse experiential alterations that might be useful for understanding and diagnosing patients, and last but not least for explaining the aetiology of...
Psychopathology
April 28, 2023
Cecilia Maria Esposito, Giovanni Stanghellini
The concept of hysteria, although apparently surpassed by contemporary nosographic classifications, continues to be talked about. Following Charbonneau's attempt to de-feminize and de-sexualize hysteria, clinical phenomenology can offer a perspective which, freed from stigma and prejudices through the suspension of judgement, allows us to understand hysteria not as a diagnostic category but as...
Frontiers in Psychology
2023
Stefano Goretti, Cecilia Maria Esposito, Gilberto Di Petta
5 citations
Psychiatric urgency is defined as a situation of serious mental suffering and behavioral alteration, which promptly requires adequate treatment; we talk about emergency when the condition can be life-threating. Even if until now neglected by phenomenological psychopathology, the emergency issue faces a clinical management challenge in which the phenomenological method becomes fundamental. The...