The Phenomenology of Emotion Experience in First-Episode Psychosis
Psychopathology January 1, 2014 V.v. Vodušek, J. Parnas, M. Tomori et al. 30 citations
Anxiety is reported as the basic emotion that buffers, transforms, and sometimes supplants all others in schizophrenia spectrum disorders. Emotions are experienced as foreign, unstable, and perturbing, contributing to feelings of ambivalence, perplexity, and an unstable sense of self. These emotion experiences may underlie a wide range of psychopathological phenomena in cognitive and social functioning. The results, based on interviews with 20 participants at admission and six months later, may not be generalizable to all schizophrenia patients due to the small sample size and selection from psychotherapeutic units.