The Medical Self: Therapy and Ethics
L Lees · Psychotherapie Psychosomatik Medizinische Psychologie · 2009 · Heft 02
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Zusammenfassung
A compelling case has been made for categorising disorders such as schizophrenia or somatoform disorders as “self-disorders“, a fragmentation of subject from cohesive self-model. This fragmentation can be viewed in various ways, but in therapeutic terms causal mechanisms attain practical importance in the sense that the cause should be understood so as to provide a cure or alleviation of symptoms. In schizophrenia, the drive for a cure raises significant ethical concerns. Early intervention has reached the stage where it almost outpaces the disease: treatment can be given before the prodromal phase has ended. Th…