[Phenomenology of social behavior - the problem of the basic disturbance in schizophrenia]

Psychiatric phenomenology approaches psychic disturbances from a structural phenomenological point of view in order to show that the schizophrenic "deficiency" changes manifest themselves above all in the sphere of "Mitsein". In this area, it is shown to be structural alteration of the "Zwischen" which is expressed in japanese by "ki", a word which has special meaningful connotations for the japanese mind. The case of a schizophrenic patient demonstrates how to understand such a psychosis as a rising from a transformation of the "ki".