Exploring the Self: Philosophical and Psychopathological Perspectives on Self-Experience

✍ Scribed by Dan Zahavi (Editor)

• Publisher: John Benjamins
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 309
• Series: Advances in Consciousness Research 23
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The aim of this volume is to discuss recent research into self-experience and its disorders,and to contribute to a better integration of the different empirical and conceptual perspectives. Among the topics discussed are questions like ‘What is a self?,’ ‘What is the relation between the self-givenness of consciousness and the givenness of the conscious self?’,‘How should we understand the self-disorders encountered in schizophrenia?’ and ‘What general insights into the nature of the self can pathological phenomena provide us with?’ Most of the contributions are characterized by a distinct phenomenological approach.

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Preface, Link : philosophy-psychopathology-phenomenology / Josef Parnas & Dan Zahavi --
Ecological perspective on the self and its development / George Butterworth --
Phenomenology and ontology of the self / Galen Strawson --
Self and consciousness / Dan Zahavi --
Place for the ego in current research / Eduard Marbach --
On understanding schizophrenia / Naomi Eilan --
Self and intentionality in the pre-psychotic stages of schizophrenia : a phenomenological study / Josef Parnas. Schizophrenia, self-experience, and the so-called 'negative symptoms' / Louis Sass --
Monitoring the self in schizophrenia : the role of internal models / Sarah-Jayne Blakemore --
Self-reference and schizophrenia : a cognitive model of immunity to error through misidentification / Shaun Gallagher --
Questionable psychopathology / John Cutting --
Pathological selves / Michael Schwartz and Osborne Wiggins --
Phenomenology of the social self : the schizotype and the melancholic type / Giovanni Stanghellini.

✦ Subjects

Self -- Congresses. Psychology, Pathological -- Congresses. Self (Philosophy) -- Congresses. Schizophrenia -- Congresses. Ego -- Congresses. Psychopathology -- Congresses. Psychology, Pathological. Schizophrenia. Self. Self (Philosophy) Zelf. Schizofrenie. Psychopathologie.