title: From theory to clinical practice: a phenomenologically inspired intervention for patients with schizophrenia.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Phenomenological conceptualizations of schizophrenia regard the fundamental transformation of self-experience as the central feature of the schizophrenic state of mind. Recently, self-disorders as subtle, trait-like, merely subjective alterations of self-experience have received vast empirical attention. However, the question of how to address self-disorders psychotherapeutically has remained neglected.
  
  
  METHODS
  From phenomenologically inspired analyses of self-disorders we derive a therapeutic intervention that focuses on the following: (1) verbalizing diffuse changes in self-experiences and (2) conceptualizing these self-experiences in terms of aggravating and relieving factors in order to stimulate coping and derive targeted therapeutic interventions.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The clinical implementation is illustrated by two case studies. The feasibility of our approach is preliminarily supported by an exploratory study.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This intervention seems promising in assisting patients to develop an embodied and enacted understanding of self-disorders.
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Nischk
authors.forename: Christina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Dölker
authors.forename: Johannes
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Rusch
authors.forename: Philippe
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Merz
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D003210:Concept Formation; D005240:Feasibility Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000628:therapy*; D012565:Schizophrenic Psychology; D012649:Self Concept; D014705:Verbal Behavior