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Reports of patients with schizophrenia show a fragmented and anomalous subjective experience. This pathological subjective experience, we suggest, can be related to the fact that disembodiment inhibits the possibility of intersubjective experience, and more importantly of common sense. In this paper, we ask how to investigate the anomalous experience both from qualitative and quantitative viewpoints. To our knowledge, few studies have focused on a clinical combination of both first- phenomenological assessment and third-person biological methods, especially for Schizophrenia, or ASD therapeutics and diagnosis. We will thus attempt to bring forward a second-person scientific design, accounting for both the first-person subjective experiential aspects, and respective third-person neurobiological correlates of embodied aesthetics in anomalous experience. From this proposal, we further explore the consequences to clinical and research practice.
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There are two main “classical” versions of phenomenology: the Husserlian (transcendental) theory and the experimental (empirical) version of Stumpf, Meinong, Michote, among others.
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We would like to acknowledge the work of scientists engaged in the ASD early diagnosis and interventions, specifically Schaer, Franchini and Eliez (2014), National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) SYNAPSY - The Synaptic Basis of Mental Diseases (Campus Biotech, Genève, Switzerland); the Salivatec, Institute of Health Sciences (UCP, Lisbon, Portugal), specifically Correia Maria José; and the Lisbon Mind and Reasoning Group (UNL). We wish also to thank the anonymous reviewers for their insightful suggestions, and David for his help with the clarity of our words.
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Hipólito, I., Martins, J. (2018). A “Second-Person” Model to Anomalous Social Cognition. In: Hipólito, I., Gonçalves, J., Pereira, J. (eds) Schizophrenia and Common Sense. Studies in Brain and Mind, vol 12. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73993-9_4
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