When Self-Consciousness Breaks: Alien Voices and Inserted Thoughts

摘要: In this book, G. Lynn Stephens and George Graham examine verbal hallucinations thought insertion as examples of what they call "alienated self-consciousness." such cases, a subject is directly or introspectively aware an episode in her mental life but experiences it alien, somehow attributable to another person. explore two sorts questions about insertion. The first their phenomenology -- the experience like for subject. second concerns implications alien episodes our general understanding self-consciousness. Psychopathologists look at reveal underlying pathology illness. As philosophers, authors ask psychological structure processes human suggest that are caused by disturbed sense agency, condition which no longer has being agent who thinks carries out thought. Distinguishing subjectivity from make case agency key element