The Phenomenology of Anomalous World Experience in Schizophrenia: A Qualitative Study

Q3 Psychology

Journal of Phenomenological Psychology Pub Date : 2017-10-20 DOI:10.1163/15691624-12341328

E. Pienkos, S. Silverstein, L. Sass

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Abstract

This current study is a pilot project designed to clarify changes in the lived world among people with diagnoses within the schizophrenia spectrum. The Examination of Anomalous World Experience ( EAWE ) was used to interview ten participants with schizophrenia spectrum disorders ( SZ ) and a comparison group of three participants with major depressive disorder ( DEP ). Interviews were analyzed using the descriptive phenomenological method. This analysis revealed two complementary forms of experience unique to SZ participants: Destabilization, the experience that reality and the intersubjective world are less comprehensible, less stable, and generally less real; and Subjectivization, the dominance of one’s internal, subjective experiences in the perception or interpretation of the lived world. Persons with depressive disorders, by contrast, did not experience disruptions of the reality or independence of the world or any significant disruptions of appearance or meaning. These results are consistent with contemporary and classic phenomenological views on anomalous world experience in schizophrenia.

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精神分裂症异常世界体验现象学的定性研究

目前的这项研究是一个试点项目，旨在阐明精神分裂症谱系患者生活世界的变化。采用异常世界体验量表(EAWE)对10名精神分裂症谱系障碍(SZ)患者和3名重度抑郁障碍(DEP)患者进行访谈。访谈采用描述现象学方法进行分析。该分析揭示了SZ参与者特有的两种互补的体验形式:不稳定，即现实和主体间世界更难以理解、更不稳定、更不真实的体验;主体化，一个人内在的、主观的经验在感知或解释生活世界中的主导地位。相比之下，患有抑郁症的人并没有经历过对现实世界或世界独立性的破坏，也没有经历过对外观或意义的任何重大破坏。这些结果与当代和经典现象学对精神分裂症异常世界经验的看法一致。

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Journal of Phenomenological Psychology Psychology-Psychology (miscellaneous)

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期刊介绍： The peer-reviewed Journal of Phenomenological Psychology publishes articles that advance the discipline of psychology from the perspective of the Continental phenomenology movement. Within that tradition, phenomenology is understood in the broadest possible sense including its transcendental, existential, hermeneutic, and narrative strands and is not meant to convey the thought of any one individual. Articles advance the discipline of psychology by applying phenomenology to enhance the field’s philosophical foundations, critical reflection, theoretical development, research methodologies, empirical research, and applications in such areas as clinical, educational, and organizational psychology.