The Self in the Spectrum: A Closer Look at the Temporal Stability of Self-Disorders in Schizophrenia

Self-disorders are temporally persisting, experiential anomalies of subjective experiences that index liability to schizophrenia. They impact on the temporal unfolding of concomitant, diagnostic symptoms and can be suitably characterized through the Examination of Anomalous Self Ex periences (EASE). Capitalizing on the results of a recent longitudinal study, we explored the relevant patterns of interaction within self-disorders' descriptive dimensions (i.e., stream of consciousness, presence, corporeality, demarcation, and solipsism). The results indicated that after a 5-year follow-up the interconnection across SD dimensions tightened, confirming that EASE domains are interdependent aspects of an overarching structural change of subjectivity.