Anomalous self-experience in depersonalization and schizophrenia: a comparative investigation.
Consciousness and cognition June 1, 2013 Louis Sass, Elizabeth Pienkos, Barnaby Nelson et al. 144 citations
Anomalous self-experiences are central to schizophrenia and other psychiatric disorders. This analysis compared such experiences in schizophrenia-spectrum disorders, as cataloged in the EASE, with those described in severe depersonalization. Numerous affinities were found, showing that pure forms of diminished self-affection (depersonalization) can involve experiences resembling those of schizophrenia. However, important discrepancies emerged, suggesting that more automatic or deficiency-like factors—probably involving self/world or self/other confusion and erosion of first-person perspective—are more distinctive of schizophrenia-spectrum disorders.