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  • Psychiatry
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Neuroscience

Background:

  • The concept of basic self-experience disorders is increasingly recognized as central to schizophrenia spectrum disorders.
  • Understanding the link between early self-disturbances and later psychotic symptoms remains a challenge.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To phenomenologically analyze the emergence of ego disorders from basic self-disorders in schizophrenia spectrum disorders.
  • To investigate the transition from prodromal self-disturbances to first-rank symptoms.

Main Methods:

  • Phenomenological analysis of self-experience disorders.
  • Examination of specific symptoms such as motor passivity and thought insertion.
  • Exploration of the relationship between basic self-disorders and ego disorders.

Main Results:

  • Full-blown delusions of alien control appear to originate from a disruption in the intentionality of thinking, feeling, and acting.
  • This disruption can be traced back to anomalies in self-experience during the prodromal stages of schizophrenia.

Conclusions:

  • Basic self-disorders are fundamental to understanding the development of ego disorders and first-rank symptoms in schizophrenia spectrum disorders.
  • Anomalies in self-experience during prodromal stages are critical precursors to later psychotic manifestations.