Queering the Schizophrenic Body: Re-orientated nerves
Excursions Journal April 20, 2023 DOI: 10.20919/exs.13.2023.384 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
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| Key points | Argues that concepts from Sara Ahmed's queer phenomenology can complement the ipseity-disturbance model in phenomenological psychiatry, enabling a recovery-oriented dialogue between queer-phenomenological and phenomenological-psychiatric approaches to psychotic experience. |
Abstract
In this paper I explore how some insights about queer embodiment can be applied to the subtleties of psychotic experience, introducing a recovery-oriented dialogue between a queer-phenomenological and phenomenological-psychiatric approach. More specifically, I show how some concepts from Sara Ahmed can complement the ipseity-disturbance model, with which Louis Sass and his colleagues have re-introduced phenomenological psychiatry to mainstream schizophrenia research.