This chapter introduces some of the central concepts, themes, and issues addressed in the book. First of all, it discusses the concept of ‘minimal self’ and its recent application to schizophrenia and auditory verbal hallucination (AVH). Then it raises the question of whether minimal self includes only the sense of having some kind of experience or, in addition, a more specific sense of the...
This chapter widens the scope of the discussion, to include types of hallucination not so far considered. It begins by drawing on Merleau-Ponty’s remarks on hallucination in Phenomenology of Perception, in order to identify a type of experience that differs both from orthodox hallucination and from the kinds of experience described in earlier chapters. The chapter goes on to consider auditory...