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Self-continuity across time in schizophrenia: An exploration of phenomenological and narrative continuity in the past and future

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Allé, M.C., d'Argembeau, A., Schneider, P., Potheegadoo, J., Coutelle, R., Danion, J.-M., Berna, F.·2016·Comprehensive Psychiatry

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Background Disorders of the self, such as a reduced sense of personal continuity in time, are a core symptom of schizophrenia, but one that is still poorly understood. In the present study, we investigated two complementary aspects of self-continuity, namely phenomenological and narrative continuity, in 27 patients with schizophrenia, and compared them with 27 control participants. Methods Participants were asked to identify important past events and to narrate a story from their life that included these events. They were also asked to imagine important events that might happen in their personal future and to build a narrative of their future life. The vividness of these important life events and the proportion of self-event connections in the narratives were used as a measure of phenomenological and narrative continuity, respectively. Results Our study showed patients with schizophrenia experienced less vivid representations of personally significant events (p = .02) for both temporal directions (past and future) (p < .001). In addition, their ability to make explicit connections between personal events and self-attributes in life narratives was also impaired (p = .03), but only in the case of past narratives (p < .001). Conclusions These results shed new light on the cognitive mechanisms underlying self-disorders in schizophrenia. The clinical and therapeutic implications of these findings are discussed.

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    The Abstract reports fewer explicit self-event connections in patients with schizophrenia than controls, but only in past life narratives. The Task and procedure section describes narratives built around important memories, not a test of self-event connections in self-defining memories specifically; the Discussion attributes that earlier finding to prior studies. Our copy provides no page numbers for these passages. (LLM, conf=0.88)

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Authors
Allé, M. C., d'Argembeau, A., Schneider, P., Potheegadoo, J., Coutelle, R., Danion, J.-M., & Berna, F.
Affiliations
  • Inserm (FR)
  • Fondation FondaMental (FR)
Corresponding author
Berna, F.
Venue
Comprehensive Psychiatry
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2016-08
Volume
69
Pages
53-61
ISSN
0010-440X (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2346626897
Cited by
39
References
92
Citations by year
2026: 3 · 2025: 7 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 5 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 1
FWCI
7.02
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • Comprehensive Psychiatry (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • HAL (submittedVersion)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion)
  • ORBi (University of Liège) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Identity, Memory, and Therapy
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Schizophrenia research and treatment
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Mental Health and Psychiatry
Keywords
schizophrenia, self-continuity, narrative continuity, life stories, memory vividness, self-disorder
MeSH terms
Adult, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Schizophrenic Psychology, Self Concept, Time Factors, Case-Control Studies, Narration

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