K. Nielsen

Disturbances of Imagination in Psychopathology and Its Promises for Recovery

Abstract:Despite its century-old history, phenomenological psychiatry has mostly focused on exploring mental illness, only rarely addressing the possibility of getting better or restoring a life that is felt as worth living. Such a task appears today even more urgent in the light of the developments related to the reco...

The Delusions of Paradox

Abstract:This manuscript undertakes an interdisciplinary investigation, inverting Louis Sass's noted comparison in The Paradoxes of Delusion between philosophical confusion and schizophrenic delusion. While Sass used Wittgenstein to illuminate psychopathology, we use psychopathology to clarify a strand in one of Wittge...

Imaginative Vulnerability and Symbolic Mediation: A Phenomenological Analysis in Schizophrenia-Spectrum Conditions.