The destructive nature of severe and ongoing trauma: Impairments in the minimal-self
Philosophical Psychology December 5, 2020 Y. Ataria, O. Horovitz 13 citations
Severe and ongoing trauma can damage the minimal self—the core sense of being a unified subject of experience. Over time, this impairment may contribute to complex post-traumatic stress disorder and schizophrenia. The paper builds conceptual connections between phenomenological philosophy and neuroscience to explain this process.