SynthesisClinical psychology review2021
Narrative identity in the psychosis spectrum: A systematic review and developmental model.
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25 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- The association between attachment insecurity and negative symptoms in clinical and non-clinical populations: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Psychology and psychotherapy · 2026Pooled it
- Theoretical Perspectives on the Minimal and Narrative Self in the Schizophrenia Spectrum: An Integrative Review.Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Cognitive sciencePooled it
- Envisioning a Hopeful Future Despite Schizophrenia: The Role of Self-Concept Clarity and Narrative Identity.Scandinavian journal of psychology · 2026Article
- Early-Age onset of psychotic spectrum symptoms is highly prevalent and associated with greater illness severity in schizophrenia spectrum disorders that develop later in life.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2026Observational
- The Concept of Autism in Autism Spectrum Disorder and Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorder: Historical Divergence and Phenomenological Rapprochement.Journal of the Korean Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry · 2026Review
- Interventions targeting identity in adults with psychosis, severe mental illness, brain injury, or intellectual disability: a transdiagnostic scoping review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Review
- The journey through disruptive loss and transformational gain: a co-creative single case study on writing and publishing after psychosis.Philosophy, ethics, and humanities in medicine : PEHM · 2025Article
- Antipsychotics and Identity: The Adverse Effect No One is Talking About.Community mental health journal · 2025Article
- Investigating the associations between personality functioning, cognitive biases, and (non-)perceptive clinical high-risk symptoms of psychosis in the community.European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists · 2025Article
- Cracks in the pattern: Gallagher's theory of the self and the dynamics of schizophrenic selfhood.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Self-Transcendence as a Risk and Resilience Factor in Individuals at Clinical High Risk for Psychosis.Early intervention in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Managing health in dual diagnosis: narratives from individuals with schizophrenia and diabetes.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Making Sense of Recovery From First Psychosis With Antipsychotic Medication: A Qualitative Phenomenological Study.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2024Article
- Self-concept and Narrative Identity in Youth at Clinical High Risk for Psychosis.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2024Article
- Education, relationships, and place: life choices in the narratives of university master students.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Existential concerns in psychopathology: a transdiagnostic network analysisCogent mental health · 2024Article
- Two people making sense of a story: narrative exposure therapy as a trauma intervention in early intervention in psychosis.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2024Article
- Family relationships as a source of narrative identity of people with advanced dementia.BMC geriatrics · 2023Article
- Lower cohesion and altered first-person pronoun usage in the spoken life narratives of individuals with schizophrenia.Schizophrenia research · 2023Article
- Discrepancies between self and caregiver perceptions of agency in first-episode psychosis.Journal of psychiatric research · 2023Article
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Abstract
Individuals with schizophrenia-spectrum disorders face profound challenges as they attempt to maintain identity through the course of illness. Narrative identity-the study of internalized, evolving life stories-provides a rich theoretical and empirical perspective on these challenges. Based on evidence from a systematic review of narrative identity in the psychosis spectrum (30 studies, combined N = 3859), we argue that the narrative identities of individuals with schizophrenia-spectrum disorders are distinguished by three features: disjointed structure, a focus on suffering, and detached narration. Psychotic disorders typically begin to emerge during adolescence and emerging adulthood, which are formative developmental stages for narrative identity, so it is particularly informative to understand identity disturbances from a developmental perspective. We propose a developmental model in which a focus on suffering emerges in childhood; disjointed structure emerges in middle and late adolescence; and detached narration emerges before or around the time of a first psychotic episode. Further research with imminent risk and early course psychosis populations would be needed to test these predictions. The disrupted life stories of individuals on the psychosis spectrum provide multiple rich avenues for further research to understand narrative self-disturbances.
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