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[Self-certitude and self-being in schizophrenic delusional patients]
H Feldmann1, M Schmidt-Degenhard
1Psychiatrische Klinik, Universität Göttingen.
Fortschritte Der Neurologie-Psychiatrie
|March 17, 2000
Summary
Schizophrenic patients can achieve a new sense of self through their delusional experiences, which provide absolute certainty and a basis for self-disclosure. This transformation involves an intrusive psychotic experience, leading to a radical change in self-being and existential seclusion.
Area of Science:
- Psychiatry
- Phenomenology
- Psychology
Context:
- Examines the subjective experience of schizophrenic patients with delusions.
- Focuses on how patients construct a new sense of self within psychosis.
Purpose:
- To differentiate the aspects through which a schizophrenic delusional patient can achieve a new psychotically determined existence.
- To explore the self-certitude, self-disclosure, and transformative experiences in psychosis.
Summary:
- Delusional experiences provide quasi-transcendental organization, establishing self-certitude and the absolute nature of the delusion.
- Reflexive self-confrontation and self-disclosure within psychosis form the basis for a new self-being.
- The intrusive experience of becoming psychotic can trigger awareness of a new beginning and radical change in personal self-being, leading to existential seclusion.
Impact:
- Offers insights into the existential and self-transformative processes in schizophrenia.
- Highlights the role of delusional experiences in constructing a new reality and selfhood.
- Informs therapeutic approaches by understanding the patient's subjective reality and self-perception.