Frontiers in Psychiatry
June 9, 2021
Anne Giersch, Thomas Huard, Sohee Park et al.
The experience of oneself in the world is based on sensory afferences, enabling us to reach a first-perspective perception of our environment and to differentiate oneself from the world. Visual hallucinations may arise from a difficulty in differentiating one's own mental imagery from externally-induced perceptions. To specify the relationship between hallucinations and the disorders of the...
Frontiers in Psychiatry
May 10, 2021
Cherise Rosen, Michele Tufano, Clara Humpston et al.
This study examines the interconnectedness between absorption, inner speech, self, and psychopathology. Absorption involves an intense focus and immersion in mental imagery, sensory/perceptual stimuli, or vivid imagination that involves decreased self-awareness and alterations in consciousness. In psychosis, the dissolution and permeability in the demarcation between self and one's sensory...
Frontiers in Psychology
April 28, 2021
Christopher Gutland, Wenjing Cai, Anthony Vincent Fernandez
2 citations
Consciousness has a long history as a topic of philosophical investigation.But its status as an object of scientific inquiry is a comparatively recent development.Consciousness seems to elude traditional approaches to scientific research because it is not directly accessible to third-person observational methods or objective systems of measurement.Researchers cope with this challenge in a...
Frontiers in Psychology
April 12, 2021
Henriette Löffler-stastka, Kathrin Bednar, Ingrid Pleschberger et al.
Depression has been widely studied by researchers from different fields, but its causes, and mechanism of action are still not clear. A difficulty emerges from the shifting from objective diagnosis or analysis to exploration of subjective feelings and experiences that influence the individuals' expression, communication and coping in facing depression. The integration of the experiential...
Spiritual Psychology and Counseling
March 19, 2021
Peter M. Forster
This article addresses the little-studied area of the subjective experience of meditation through the analysis of the daily meditation diary of an experienced meditator over 2 months during the covid-19 lockdown in England in early 2020. The participant, who began meditating over 40 years ago, practised an open monitoring style of meditation for 90 minutes every day followed by 30-minutes of...
Continental Philosophy Review
March 9, 2021
Havi Carel
The phenomenological method (or rather, methods) has been fruitfully used to study the experience of illness in recent years. However, the role of illness is not merely that of a passive object for phenomenological scrutiny. I propose that illness, and pathology more generally, can be developed into a phenomenological method in their own right. I claim that studying cases of pathology,...
arXiv Preprint Archive
March 1, 2021
Natesh Ganesh
preprint
In this short paper, we will introduce a simple model for quantifying philosophical vagueness. There is growing interest in this endeavor to quantify vague concepts of consciousness, agency, etc. We will then discuss some of the implications of this model including the conditions under which the quantification of `nifty' leads to pan-nifty-ism. Understanding this leads to an interesting insight...
Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences
February 16, 2021
Allan Køster, Anthony Vincent Fernandez
106 citations
Abstract In this article, we develop a new approach to integrating philosophical phenomenology with qualitative research. The approach uses phenomenology’s concepts, namely existentials, rather than methods such as the epoché or reductions. We here introduce the approach to both philosophers and qualitative researchers, as we believe that these studies are best conducted through...
Open Theology
January 10, 2021
Feise-Mahnkopp Patricia
On a phenomenal level, no differences between the mystical and the initial sequence of psychotic experience are to be found. Both are characterized by transliminality (i.e., an experience of consciousness transcending both the psychophysical and the rational realms). However, the situation is different if we integrate psychodynamic implications before and after those experiences into the...
Psychopathology
2021
Alvaro Barrera, Tomasz Bajorek, Romanie Dekker et al.
Over time, there have been different views regarding the verbal auditory hallucinations (VAHs) reported by borderline personality disorder (BPD) and schizophrenia patients. More recently, their similarity has been emphasized, a view that undoubtedly has significant implications in terms of differential diagnosis and management. To explore this important issue, we undertook a detailed...