Ego-Fragmentation in Schizophrenia: A Severe Dissociation of Self-Experience

Psychosis, Trauma and Dissociation: Emerging Perspectives on Severe Psychopathology

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 51-64

  Scharfetter, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PSYCHIATRY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Discriminant function analysis and differing ego pathology patterns; Dissociative identity disorder (DID) and borderline personality disorder (BPD); Dissociative mechanism continuum; Ego activity disturbances; Ego identity prereflexive certainty of one's own definite selfhood; Ego pathology construct; Hierarchy of dimensions of self experience; Process of 'loosening of association'; Schizophrenic syndromes 'ego ' or 'self pathology'; Schizophrenic syndromes as self disorders

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955435191     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470699652.ch4     Document Type: Chapter

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