ArticleConsciousness and cognition2017
Immersion in altered experience: An investigation of the relationship between absorption and psychopathology.
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- The severity of dissociation and dissociative phenomena in non-affective psychosis: a systematic review and meta-analyses.BMC psychiatry · 2026Pooled it
- Catalyst for change: Psilocybin's antidepressant mechanisms-A systematic review.Journal of psychopharmacology (Oxford, England) · 2025Pooled it
- Dissociation and recovery in psychosis - an overview of the literature.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Pooled it
- Relationships between empathy, symptoms, and functioning in first episode psychosis.Schizophrenia research · 2026Trial
- Personality change in a trial of psilocybin therapy v. escitalopram treatment for depression.Psychological medicine · 2024Trial
- Hearing voices and other altered perceptual experiences across psychotic, mood, and anxiety disorders: from phenomenology and mechanisms to future directions.Schizophrenia (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2025Review
- Sensed Presence, Attenuated Psychosis, and Transliminality: At the Threshold of Consciousness.Psychopathology · 2023Article
- Basic symptoms of schizophrenia are related to symptoms of traumatic stress: A pivotal role of sensitization. An observational study.Medicine · 2022Observational
- Examining the Relation Between Practicing Meditation and Having Peak Experiences and Lucid Dreams. A Cross-Sectional Study.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- The Strasbourg Visual Scale: A Novel Method to Assess Visual Hallucinations.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
- The Sensory and Perceptual Scaffolding of Absorption, Inner Speech, and Self in Psychosis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
- Cognitive Gain or Handicap: Magical Ideation and Self-Absorption in Clinical and Non-clinical Participants.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Patterns of Occurrence of Four States of Consciousness as a Function of Trait Absorption.Journal for person-oriented research · 2019Article
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Abstract
Understanding alterations in perceptual experiences as a component of the basic symptom structure of psychosis may improve early detection and the identification of subtle shifts that can precede symptom onset or exacerbation. We explored the phenomenological construct of absorption and psychotic experiences in both clinical (bipolar psychosis and schizophrenia spectrum) and non-clinical participants. Participants with psychosis endorsed significantly higher absorption compared to the non-clinical group. Absorption was positively correlated with all types of hallucinations and multiple types of delusions. The analysis yielded two distinct cluster groups that demarcated a distinction along the continuum of self-disturbance: on characterized by attenuated ego boundaries and the other stable ego boundaries. The study suggests that absorption is a potentially important but under-researched component of psychosis that overlaps with, but is not identical to the more heavily theorized constructs of aberrant salience and hyperreflexivity.
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