Double bookkeeping and schizophrenia spectrum: divided unified phenomenal consciousness - European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience
Eugen Bleuler, the founder of the concept of schizophrenia, pointed out that psychotic patients were able to live in two disjoint worlds (namely, the social, intersubjective world and the delusional world). He termed this phenomenon “double bookkeeping,” but did not provide any conceptual...
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Some people with Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders can live in different realities and can have some self-awareness about their mental health.