ArticleFrontiers in psychiatry2021
Anomalies of Imagination, Self-Disorders, and Schizophrenia Spectrum Psychopathology: A Network Analysis.
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- Basic Self-disorders Across Psychiatric Diagnoses and Risk Syndromes: An Updated Meta-analysis.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2026Pooled it
- Poor insight and self-disorders in schizophrenia: an empirical study.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2026Article
- Self, Me, or I? Unravelling the Triumvirate of Selfhood in Pathological Consciousness.Brain sciences · 2025Review
- Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders: An Empirical Benchmark Study of Real-world Diagnostic Accuracy and Reliability Among Leading International Psychiatrists.Schizophrenia bulletin open · 2024Article
- Are Self-disorders in Schizophrenia Expressive of a Unifying Disturbance of Subjectivity: A Factor Analytic Approach.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2023Article
- Obsessive-compulsive symptoms and dissociative experiences: Suggested underlying mechanisms and implications for science and practice.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Disembodied Language in Early-Onset Schizophrenia.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundAnomalies of imagination encompass disturbances of the basic experiential structure of fantasies and imagery that can be explored in a semi-structured way with the Examination of Anomalous Fantasy and Imagination (EAFI). We aimed (1) to examine the distribution of anomalies of imagination among different diagnostic groups and a group of healthy controls, and (2) to examine their relation with disorders of basic self, perceptual disturbances and canonical state psychopathology of the schizophrenia-spectrum (positive, negative and general symptoms).
methodsThe 81 participants included patients with schizophrenia or other non-affective psychosis (
resultsAnomalies of imagination aggregated significantly in schizophrenia-spectrum disorders compared to other mental illness and healthy controls with no difference between schizophrenia and schizotypal disorder. In the network analysis, anomalies of imagination were closely inter-connected with self-disorders. Although, the anomalies of imagination correlated moderately with perceptual disturbance and positive, negative and general state symptomatology, these dimensions aggregated separately and relatively distant in the network.
conclusionsThe results support that anomalies of imagination are highly characteristic of schizophrenia-spectrum disorders and closely related to self-disorders.
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