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Conscious compensations for thought insertion.
R Area1, A Garcia-Caballero, I Gómez
1Psychiatry Service, Complexo Hospitalario Xeral-Calde, Lugo, Spain. agudoslugo@yahoo.es
Psychopathology
|July 8, 2003
Summary
Schizophrenia patients may perform thoughts as speech to consciously avoid alien control experiences. This conscious compensation offers insights into source monitoring deficits and neuropsychological models of schizophrenia.
Area of Science:
- Neuroscience
- Cognitive Psychology
- Psychiatry
Background:
- Experiences of alien control, like thought insertion, are often attributed to source monitoring deficits.
- These deficits suggest a disconnection between cognitive systems for action initiation and monitoring.
Observation:
- A case study of a schizophrenic patient is presented.
- The patient consciously performs thoughts as a motor act of speech.
Findings:
- This motor act of speech serves as a conscious compensation mechanism.
- The patient aims to prevent thoughts from feeling alien or not self-generated.
Implications:
- This conscious compensation strategy provides a novel interpretation of schizophrenia symptoms.
- It aligns with and potentially expands upon C. Frith's neuropsychological model of schizophrenia.