... disorders Psychotherapy Qualitative studies Subjectivity Phenomenology Lived experience Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is receiving increased attention as a diagnosis surrounded by many doubts and controversies concerning, e.g., the heterogeneity of symptoms, the lack of validity...

... Communication Empathy Basic symptoms Subjectivity From its earliest descriptions in young children, autism has been characterized in the medical and scientific literature, for instance in the nosology of International Classification of Diseases [ 1 ] and Diagnostic Statistical Manual [ 2 ], by its...

...(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Diagnosis Empathy Phenomenology Psychopathology Subjectivity In Medicine, by the term “symptoms” we refer...

...? The current terminology on the subject implies either a nonlinear jump (“conversion”) or a more linear progression (“transition”) from one disorder to another. To enrich our understanding of such diagnostic shifts, we examined the psychopathological pictures of patients who “transitioned” from schizotypal...

... mutually influence each other, and result in, to borrow the words of Blankenburg, a ‘loss of natural self-evidence'. In accordance with this theory, Schlimme and Schwartz [ 25 ] argue that lack of social cover is a major part of the subjective experience of schizophrenia and that, in psychotherapy...

.... Continuity studies Delusions Epistemology hallucinations Psychic function psychopathology Psychotic symptoms Subjectivity The current debate on the continuity or discontinuity of mental symptoms and common ‘psychic functions' is far from new. In 1926, Eugene Minkowski wrote an essay where he...

... or of their effectiveness, quality or safety. The publisher and the editor(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Neurophysiology Phenomenology Psychopathology Subjectivity Self...

...Thomas Fuchs The establishment of criteriological diagnostic systems since the 1980s has increased the reliability of psychiatric diagnosis. On the other hand, the limits of this approach for clinicians and researchers are becoming increasingly apparent. In particular, the assessment of subjective...

... the changes in patients’ delusional statements across the clinical course from the perspective of discourse analysis. Sampling and Methods: First, we presented a case of FAD in a married Japanese couple. Second, we examined 14 other cases of FAD from Japanese literature and analyzed changes in subjective...

... psychiatric disorders are human processes and a major aspect of being human is our subjectivity, we also need to pay far more attention to subjective phenomena, even those difficult to define reliably. The arts have much to teach us about the nature of those processes. It is essential that we learn from...