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This chapter looks at ex-static absorption and hyper-reflection herein from the perspective of so-called “ipseity disturbances” found in the literature on phenomenological psychopathology . These are changes in self-awareness that putatively unify the various heterogeneous syndromes contained in the schizophrenia diagnosis. While patients with schizophrenia, pathologically hyper -reflect as a result of an altered sense of self , namely a weakened self-affection, I speculate that musicians can experience similar states as a result of a superior bodily control and self-affection which affords them the opportunity of experimenting with their own consciousness.
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Before onset of psychosis, people on the schizophrenia spectrum may experience a pervasive sense of foreignness also known as a “pre-delusional state” (Sass and Pienkos 2013).
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A lack of belonging to a world is related to the notion in phenomenological psychopathology that schizophrenia is a pathology of intersubjectivity (Henriksen and Nilsson 2017; Salice and Henriksen 2015; Henriksen et al. 2010).
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On embodiment in schizophrenia, see Stanghellini (2009).
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Høffding, S. (2018). Schizophrenia and Ipseity Disturbances. In: A Phenomenology of Musical Absorption. New Directions in Philosophy and Cognitive Science. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00659-4_9
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