Psychopathology of the Bodily Self and the Brain: The Case of Schizophrenia

Gallese, Vittorio; Ferri, Francesca

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“…Recently, Postmes43 and colleagues suggested a potential relationship between multisensory integration deficit in schizophrenia spectrum disorders9272844454647 and incoherent experience of self and self-environment boundaries4849505152. Such proposal is grounded on evidence that the development of a sense of self, and of its demarcation from the environment, is intertwined with the developmental abilities to correctly integrate sensory input5354.…”

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Spatiotemporal processing of somatosensory stimuli in schizotypy

Ferri

Ambrosini

Costantini

2016

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Unusual interaction behaviors and perceptual aberrations, like those occurring in schizotypy and schizophrenia, may in part originate from impaired remapping of environmental stimuli in the body space. Such remapping is contributed by the integration of tactile and proprioceptive information about current body posture with other exteroceptive spatial information. Surprisingly, no study has investigated whether alterations in such remapping occur in psychosis-prone individuals. Four hundred eleven students were screened with respect to schizotypal traits using the Schizotypal Personality Questionnaire. A subgroup of them, classified as low, moderate, and high schizotypes were to perform a temporal order judgment task of tactile stimuli delivered on their hands, with both uncrossed and crossed arms. Results revealed marked differences in touch remapping in the high schizotypes as compared to low and moderate schizotypes. For the first time here we reveal that the remapping of environmental stimuli in the body space, an essential function to demarcate the boundaries between self and external world, is altered in schizotypy. Results are discussed in relation to recent models of ‘self-disorders’ as due to perceptual incoherence.

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Spatiotemporal processing of somatosensory stimuli in schizotypy

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2016

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“…According to Leavy (2015), ABR can poignantly add to consciousness-raising, emancipatory, and transdisciplinary research (p. 294). The perceptual openness potentially achieved might activate our mirror neurons (Gallese, 2009;Gallese & Ferri, 2014;Wiedenhofer, 2017). The latter highlights the embodied aesthetics including the active (expression) and the receptive (impression) side of the aesthetic experience.…”

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Using Aesthetic Response - A Poetic Inquiry to Expand Knowing, Part I: The Rx6-Method

Gerge

Wärja

Pedersen

2017

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Abstr Abstract actA step-wise research procedure of arts-based research (ABR) called the Rx6 method is presented. This ABR method is informed by expressive arts therapy, heuristic inquiry, attachment theory, and contemporary affective neuroscience, and is aimed at deepening the understanding of embodied felt sense. The Rx6 approach is based in aesthetics and a pragmatic pre-understanding inspired from an interpretive and a constructivist tradition. The method is a heuristic endeavour where art is applied towards the creation of meaning. For the purpose of exemplifying this method, artwork, produced within the context of a randomized control trial as part of a mixed methods study involving women treated for gynaecological cancer was used. Response art consisting of short written aesthetic responses to pictorial artifacts was applied in a structured manner. The data provided a rich artistic material in which to dialogue with artifacts in search of a condensed response statement. The Rx6 method involves six steps: to relate, resonate, respond, reflect and react to results. Engaging in ABR can offer clinicians and researchers a deepened, expanded, and embodied understanding of the studied phenomena. The complexity of sharing implicit processes and tacit knowledge, its caveats and gains, along with theoretical perspectives of such undertakings, are presented and discussed.K Ke eywor ywords: ds: Neurobiology of intersubjectivity, embodiment, felt sense, experience Intr Introduction oductionThe purpose of this article is to describe and offer a rationale for a step-wise research procedure of arts-based research (ABR) developed by the two first authors to be implemented in clinical work or research. How this method can be applied will be exemplified by presenting excerpts of our own aesthetic responses to pictorial artifacts produced by 57 research participants in a randomized controlled trial developed by Wärja, Bergmark, and Bonde (2012). The Ethics Board of Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden granted ethical approval on January 19, 2012January 19, (ref. 2012. An artifact is defined here as an object produced or shaped by human craft, conception, and agency (Gerge, 2016). The method was developed to provide a richer account of the qualitative analyses of the research subjects' written statements on how they experienced their bodies after being treated for gynaecological cancer. The study of Wärja The structured and time-framed methodology presented here -the Rx6-method -is offered as a contribution to the growing field of arts-based research (Leavy, 2015). In addition, we mean that this method can enhance research rigor, which has been addressed and called for in order to develop the ABR tradition (Forinash, 2016) (2012a, 2012b) was designed with specific clinical purposes in mind, one was to analyze differences in the paintings between the three different time pointsAccording to Viega, (2016b) scientific rigor in ABR means that, "methods, design, and results should be grounded in the purpose of inquiry" (p. 8),...

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“…Research on attachment points to the role of shared interconnectivity described by (Gallese & Ferri, 2014;Bowlby, 1968;Gaensbauer, 2016;Schore, 2003dSchore, , 2009Siegel, 1999) as a prerequisite for development, empathy, and mentalization (Fonagy & Luyten, 2015). Kenny (1989Kenny ( , 2006 described an intuitive level of togetherness that encompasses therapist and client in clinical work.…”

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Using Aesthetic Response - A Poetic Inquiry to Expand Knowing, Part II: Theoretical Perspectives on Arts-based Research

Gerge

Wärja

Pedersen

2017

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Abstr Abstract actApart from being inspired from both an interpretive and a constructivist tradition, research methods based in aesthetics can thrive from a clear rationale concerning its perceptual building-blocks in both the intersubjective and intra-psychological domains. This article aims to address the complexity of sharing implicit processes and tacit knowledge in the arts-based inquiry. Layers of this inquiry is reflected along with theoretical perspectives of such undertakings. The article also offers a theoretical rationale for why to add and acknowledge important perceptual and affective building blocks in arts-based research (ABR). Through theories from expressive arts therapy, heuristic inquiry, attachment theory and contemporary affective neuroscience some thoughts on the embodied felt sense as a perceptual hub is shared. Based in contemporary attachment theory and psychotherapy research, a rationale is given for why engaging in ABR can offer clinicians and researchers a deepened understanding of the studied phenomena. Our undertakings are presented in part 1 of these two articles. From this embodied perspective, the described arts-based inquiry can be considered as a privileged way to nuance and enlarge understanding in both the intersubjective and intra-psychological domain, which could be particularly helpful to ABR researchers who are informed by a psychodynamic perspective.

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Psychopathology of the Bodily Self and the Brain: The Case of Schizophrenia

Cited by 34 publications

References 71 publications

Spatiotemporal processing of somatosensory stimuli in schizotypy

Spatiotemporal processing of somatosensory stimuli in schizotypy

Using Aesthetic Response - A Poetic Inquiry to Expand Knowing, Part I: The Rx6-Method

Using Aesthetic Response - A Poetic Inquiry to Expand Knowing, Part II: Theoretical Perspectives on Arts-based Research

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