Mysticism and schizophrenia: A phenomenological exploration of the structure of consciousness in the schizophrenia spectrum disorders |
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Affiliation: | Center for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen, Denmark;Psychiatric Center Glostrup/Hvidovre, Copenhagen University Hospital, Denmark |
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Abstract: | Mysticism and schizophrenia are different categories of human existence and experience. Nonetheless, they exhibit important phenomenological affinities, which, however, remain largely unaddressed. In this study, we explore structural analogies between key features of mysticism and major clinical-phenomenological aspects of the schizophrenia spectrum disorders—i.e. attitudes, the nature of experience, and the ‘other’, mystical or psychotic reality. Not only do these features gravitate around the issue of the basic dimensions of consciousness, they crucially seem to implicate and presuppose a specific alteration of the very structure of consciousness. This finding has bearings for the understanding of consciousness and its psychopathological distortions. |
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Keywords: | Schizophrenia Mysticism Self-disorders Ipseity Disturbance Model Psychosis Delusion Hallucination Psychopathology Phenomenology Consciousness |
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