[Abnormal (disturbed) self-experiences in schizophrenia spectrum disorders: the qualitative aspect].
Vertex (Buenos Aires, Argentina) July 10, 2026 Marco Fierro, Abel Guerrero, Juan Toro
This narrative review describes the concept of the basic or minimal self and its alterations in schizophrenia spectrum disorders and the prodrome. The basic self is an implicit, pre-reflective sense of self-presence that grounds all experience from a first-person perspective. Anomalous self-experiences, where this first-person perspective is distorted, are considered core features of schizophrenia. The review highlights that publications on these topics are scarce in Spanish-language psychiatry.