This discussion is primarily intended for people with schizophrenia spectrum disorders, schizotypal personality disorder, and schizoid personality disorder. Phenomenological psychiatry does not aim to cover the entire spectrum of clinical disorders, but may include affective, manic, borderline, dissociative, and, in some cases, organic processes in the presence of atypical subjective experience. As recently as 50 years ago, phenomenological psychiatry described numerous atypical cases; however, clinical psychiatry still attempts to force these cases into specific frameworks, ignoring subjective experience in an effort to improve patients' condition. A therapeutic or any other clinical approach in such cases is, in essence, ineffective or harmful due to irreversible changes in the subject's mode of "being-in-the-world."
A phenomenon is an object or experience in the form in which it is directly presented to human consciousness, regardless of whether it exists in physical reality. Here, a hallucination is not a "perceptual error," but a full-fledged phenomenon with its own architecture and content.
The most common descriptions pertain to lived time, lived space, and the lived body, as well as phenomena such as intersubjectivity (the loss of an intuitive understanding of prosocial emotions), ipseity (the blurring of the concept of "self"), the loss of self-evidence (loss of intuitive understanding of cause-and-effect relationships when interacting with the world), dual orientation (simultaneous holding of two or more incompatible realities or parallel ways of thinking), trema (subconscious beliefs without logical processing), and hyperreflexivity.
Some of the phenomena listed above are not very common, so if you wish, you can share any atypical subjective experiences; also, to stay on topic for this section, to what extent did these experiences influence why you are here?
A phenomenon is an object or experience in the form in which it is directly presented to human consciousness, regardless of whether it exists in physical reality. Here, a hallucination is not a "perceptual error," but a full-fledged phenomenon with its own architecture and content.
The most common descriptions pertain to lived time, lived space, and the lived body, as well as phenomena such as intersubjectivity (the loss of an intuitive understanding of prosocial emotions), ipseity (the blurring of the concept of "self"), the loss of self-evidence (loss of intuitive understanding of cause-and-effect relationships when interacting with the world), dual orientation (simultaneous holding of two or more incompatible realities or parallel ways of thinking), trema (subconscious beliefs without logical processing), and hyperreflexivity.
Some of the phenomena listed above are not very common, so if you wish, you can share any atypical subjective experiences; also, to stay on topic for this section, to what extent did these experiences influence why you are here?
