RATIONALE: Contemporary psychiatry increasingly recognises the importance of person-centred, recovery-oriented, and biopsychosocial approaches to care. Yet these frameworks do not fully resolve the methodological question of how clinicians should investigate patients' lived experience in ways that inform ethical psychiatric practice. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: This paper argues that phenomenology...
Several studies suggest that the disorders of the self include a disturbance of the most elementary component of self - the minimal self. Characterizing these disorders and understanding the mechanisms involved remain a challenge to medical epistemology and health care professionals. In the present work, I bring together concepts of different fields, such as neuroscience, epistemology and...