Psychopathology of Lived Time : Abnormal Time Experience in Persons With Schizophrenia

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Abnormal time experience (ATE) in schizophrenia is a long-standing theme of phenomenological psychopathology. This is because temporality constitutes the bedrock of any experience and its integrity is fundamental for the sense of coherence and continuity of selfhood and personal identity. To characterize ATE in schizophrenia patients as compared to major depressives we interviewed, in a clinical setting over a period of 15 years, 550 consecutive patients affected by schizophrenic and affective disorders. Clinical files were analyzed by means of Consensual Qualitative Research (CQR), an inductive method suited to research that requires rich descriptions of inner experiences. Of the whole sample, 109 persons affected by schizophrenic (n = 95 acute, n = 14 chronic) and 37 by major depression reported at least 1 ATE. ATE are more represented in acute (N = 109 out of 198; 55%) than in chronic schizophrenic patients (N = 14 out of 103; 13%). The main feature of ATE in people with schizophrenia is the fragmentation of time experience (71 out of 109 patients), an impairment of the automatic and prereflexive synthesis of primal impression-retention-protention. This includes 4 subcategories: disruption of time flowing, déjà vu/vecu, premonitions about oneself and the external world. We contrasted ATE in schizophrenia and in major depression, finding relevant differences: in major depressives there is no disarticulation of time experience, rather timelessness because time lacks duration, not articulation. These core features of the schizophrenic pheno-phenotype may be related to self-disorders and to the manifold of characteristic schizophrenic symptoms, including so called bizarre delusions and verbal-acoustic hallucinations.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2016

Erschienen:

2016

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:42

Enthalten in:

Schizophrenia bulletin - 42(2016), 1 vom: 29. Jan., Seite 45-55

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Stanghellini, Giovanni [VerfasserIn]
Ballerini, Massimo [VerfasserIn]
Presenza, Simona [VerfasserIn]
Mancini, Milena [VerfasserIn]
Raballo, Andrea [VerfasserIn]
Blasi, Stefano [VerfasserIn]
Cutting, John [VerfasserIn]

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Journal Article
Pheno-phenotype
Qualitative method
Recovery model
Schizophrenia
Self-disorders
Temporality

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Date Completed 20.09.2016

Date Revised 13.11.2018

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1093/schbul/sbv052

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NLM248709925