TY - JOUR
T1 - Mysticism and schizophrenia
T2 - A phenomenological exploration of the structure of consciousness in the schizophrenia spectrum disorders
AU - Parnas, Josef
AU - Henriksen, Mads Gram
PY - 2016/7/1
Y1 - 2016/7/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
U2 - 10.1016/j.concog.2016.05.010
DO - 10.1016/j.concog.2016.05.010
M3 - Review
C2 - 27258928
SN - 1053-8100
VL - 43
SP - 75
EP - 88
JO - Consciousness and Cognition
JF - Consciousness and Cognition
ER -