I’m slowly—admittedly with some trepidation!—beginning to prepare for an INPP talk I’ll be giving at Durham University in July. The task I’ve set myself is to critically unpack the implications of the slippage (this, I feel, is the generous way of putting it) between first and third-person perspective in contemporary phenomenological psychopathology. With this goal … Continue reading »
Category Archives: Embodiment
Phenomenology / Psychosis / Embodiment / User/Survivor Research / Participatory research / Research methodology
Interrogating the qualitative interview
[On the plane again...seemingly the only chance I have, nowadays, to blog...] Over the past weekend I’ve been reviewing audio recordings of recent interviews and in the process have been forced—in potentially productive as well as deeply uncomfortable ways—to acknowledge my own weaknesses and confusions as an interviewer. This is certainly not the first time … Continue reading »
De Haan and Fuchs on “hyperautomatism”: a brief critical commentary
Yesterday (or the day before), as I already noted, I read De Haan and Fuchs’ essay “The Ghost in the Machine: Disembodiment in Schizophrenia –Two Case Studies.” The main reason I’m writing this very quick critical commentary is because of the superficial kinship between what D and F term “hyperautomaticity” and the idea of mnemonic … Continue reading »
