ArticleFrontiers in psychology2017
Is Schizophrenia a Disorder of Consciousness? Experimental and Phenomenological Support for Anomalous Unconscious Processing.
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- The phenomenology of auditory verbal hallucinations in schizophrenia and the challenge from pseudohallucinations.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- The neural correlates of the visual consciousness in schizophrenia: an fMRI study.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2021Article
- The Strasbourg Visual Scale: A Novel Method to Assess Visual Hallucinations.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
- A Case for Thalamic Mechanisms of Schizophrenia: Perspective From Modeling 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome.Frontiers in neural circuits · 2021Review
- Inattentive Perception, Time, and the Incomprehensibility of Consciousness.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- The Sensory and Perceptual Scaffolding of Absorption, Inner Speech, and Self in Psychosis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
- Behind the opaque curtain: A 20-year longitudinal study of dissociative and first-rank symptoms in schizophrenia-spectrum psychoses, other psychoses and non-psychotic disorders.Schizophrenia research · 2020Article
- Reintroducing Consciousness in Psychopathology: Review of the Literature and Conceptual Framework.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Review
- Novel method to measure temporal windows based on eye movements during viewing of the Necker cube.PloS one · 2020Article
- Hallucinations Beyond Voices: A Conceptual Review of the Phenomenology of Altered Perception in Psychosis.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2019Review
- Motor Synchronization in Patients With Schizophrenia: Preserved Time Representation With Abnormalities in Predictive Timing.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2018Article
- Minimal Self and Timing Disorders in Schizophrenia: A Case Report.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2018Article
- Thinking about hallucinations: why philosophy matters.Cognitive neuropsychiatryReview
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Abstract
Decades ago, several authors have proposed that disorders in automatic processing lead to intrusive symptoms or abnormal contents in the consciousness of people with schizophrenia. However, since then, studies have mainly highlighted difficulties in patients' conscious experiencing and processing but rarely explored how unconscious and conscious mechanisms may interact in producing this experience. We report three lines of research, focusing on the processing of spatial frequencies, unpleasant information, and time-event structure that suggest that impairments occur at both the unconscious and conscious level. We argue that focusing on unconscious, physiological and automatic processing of information in patients, while contrasting that processing with conscious processing, is a first required step before understanding how distortions or other impairments emerge at the conscious level. We then indicate that the phenomenological tradition of psychiatry supports a similar claim and provides a theoretical framework helping to understand the relationship between the impairments and clinical symptoms. We base our argument on the presence of disorders in the minimal self in patients with schizophrenia. The minimal self is tacit and non-verbal and refers to the sense of bodily presence. We argue this sense is shaped by unconscious processes, whose alteration may thus affect the feeling of being a unique individual. This justifies a focus on unconscious mechanisms and a distinction from those associated with consciousness.
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