The Challenge of Neuroscience: Psychiatry and Phenomenology Today

Fuchs, Thomas

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“…[3][4][5][6][7] In parallel, researchers have sought to identify points of contact between phenomenological and neuroscientific approaches to psychopathology. 1,3,[8][9][10][11] This article continues in that spirit. First, we present work in the phenomenological tradition that identifies anomalies in self-experience and understanding of others as the 2 core experiential deficits in schizophrenia.…”

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Schizophrenia, Subjectivity, and Mindreading

Nour

Barrera

2015

SCHBUL

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A number of recent articles, many appearing in Schizophrenia Bulletin, signal a renewed interest in phenomenological approaches to our understanding of schizophrenia. These approaches conceptualize schizophrenia as a disorder of altered self-awareness and decreased prereflective social attunement, which may manifest as an impaired understanding of self, others, and the physical world. Phenomenological approaches to psychopathology are sometimes construed as being incompatible with the reductionistic methodology of contemporary neuroscience. In this article, we re-examine findings from the phenomenological investigation of schizophrenia in light of an influential neurocomputational account of mindreading, which postulates that understanding of others is subserved by coherent internal self-models. We argue that the phenomenological approach to schizophrenia is not incompatible with a neurocomputational account of mindreading, and that the 2 approaches should instead be viewed as existing in a relationship of mutual constraint and enlightenment. Our hypothesis, while speculative, is an attempt to marry the phenomenological and neuronal realities of schizophrenia. Furthermore, it has implications for psychotherapeutic interventions and future research.

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confidence: 91%

“…In recent years, there has been a renewed interest in phenomenological exploration of mental illness in general, 1,2 and schizophrenia in particular. [3][4][5][6][7] In parallel, researchers have sought to identify points of contact between phenomenological and neuroscientific approaches to psychopathology.…”

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Schizophrenia, Subjectivity, and Mindreading

Nour

Barrera

2015

SCHBUL

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“…2017 if psychiatry can refine its psychopathological concepts and better delimit clinical species, we will certainly have more consistent biological research hypotheses (Fuchs, 2009). Some authors even attribute to the recent impoverishment of psychopathology the failure of ambitions in genetic and neuroimaging research, as if the biological research program of psychiatry were in some blind spot in its field, operating without rigorously validated methodological positions (Fuchs, 2002;Parnas et al, 2012). On the other hand, it would be regrettable if the great power of phenomenology were neglected in favor of secondary utility, as a "mere appendage" of neurosciences (Morley, 2002).…”

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Phenomenological psychopathology in contemporary psychiatry: interfaces and perspectives

Tamelini

Messas

2017

Rev. latinoam. psicopatol. fundam.

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“…By considering schizophrenia as a disorder of subjectivity, in its bodily and intersubjective dimension, and by focusing on the person and self who exhibits the disorder, the authors depart from a classical reductionistic picture, according to which schizophrenia is mainly associated with severe cognitive dysfunction. Parnas and Sass' account thereby on the one hand clearly makes a contribution to so-called phenomenological psychiatry (Jaspers 1968;Fuchs 2002), which considers subjective reports to be crucial elements in an explanation of the disorder's nature. Ebisch and Gallese, on the other hand, emphasize that a great part of suffering in schizophrenia stems from the fact that the person has severe problems in relating to other subjects.…”

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The enactive approach and disorders of the self - the case of schizophrenia

Kyselo

2015

Phenom Cogn Sci

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The paper discusses two recent approaches to schizophrenia, a phenomenological and a neuroscientific approach, illustrating how new directions in philosophy and cognitive science can elaborate accounts of psychopathologies of the self. It is argued that the notion of the minimal and bodily self underlying these approaches is still limited since it downplays the relevance of social interactions and relations for the formation of a coherent sense of self. These approaches also illustrate that we still lack an account of how 1st and 3rd person observations can fruitfully go together in an embodied account of disorders of the self. Two concepts from enactive cognitive science are introduced, the notions of autonomy and sense-making. Based on these, a new proposal for an enactive approach to psychopathologies of the self is outlined that integrates 1st and 3rd person perspectives, while strongly emphasising the role of social interactions in the formation of self. It is shown how the enactive framework might serve as a basis for an alternative understanding of disorders of the self such as schizophrenia, as a particular form of socially constituted self-organisation.

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The Challenge of Neuroscience: Psychiatry and Phenomenology Today

Cited by 10 publications

References 27 publications

Schizophrenia, Subjectivity, and Mindreading

Schizophrenia, Subjectivity, and Mindreading

Phenomenological psychopathology in contemporary psychiatry: interfaces and perspectives

The enactive approach and disorders of the self - the case of schizophrenia

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