JOSEF PARNAS
Center for subjectivity, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

The structure of the self as seen through the prism of psychopathology of schizophrenia

The concept of schizophrenia is extremely fuzzy and its conceptual validity only rarely addressed. There is no reason to believe that contemporary DSM and ICD definitions are superior to other diagnostic algorithms. In this presentation, it is argued that schizophrenia is constitutively linked to disorders of self-experience, pointing to the problems of 'minimal self' Philosophical and empirical aspects of this proposal are presented.

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