Pathologies of intersubjectivity in autism and schizophrenia

• Verfasst von: Fuchs, Thomas [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Pathologies of intersubjectivity in autism and schizophrenia
• Verf.angabe: Thomas Fuchs
• E-Jahr: 2015
• Jahr: 1. Januar 2015
• Umfang: 24 S.
• Teil: volume:22
• Teil: year:2015
• Teil: number:1/2
• Teil: pages:191-214
• Teil: extent:24
• Fussnoten: Gesehen am 19.06.2020
• Titel Quelle: Enthalten in: Journal of consciousness studies
• Ort Quelle: Thorverton : Imprint Academic, 1994
• Jahr Quelle: 2015
• Band/Heft Quelle: 22(2015), 1/2, Seite 191-214
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Sach-SW: autism
• Sach-SW: delusion
• Sach-SW: intercorporeality
• Sach-SW: intersubjectivity
• Sach-SW: schizophrenia
• Sach-SW: transitivism
• K10plus-PPN: 1701150719

Abstract

Most mental disorders include more or less profound disturbances of intersubjectivity, that means, a restricted capacity to respond to the social environment in a flexible way and to reach a shared understanding through adequate interaction with others. Current concepts of intersubjectivity - are mainly based on a mentalistic approach, assuming that the hidden mental states of others may only be inferred from their external bodily behaviour through 'mentalizing' or 'mindreading'. On this basis, disorders of intersubjectivity for example in autism or schizophrenia - are attributed to a dysfunction of Theory of Mind modules. From a phenomenological point of view, however, intersubjectivity is primarily based on a pre-reflective embodied relationship of self and other in an emergent bipersonal field. Instead of a theory deficit, autistic and schizophrenic - patients rather suffer from a basic disturbance of being-with-others which they try to compensate by explicit inferences and hypothetical assumptions about others. The paper consequently distinguishes three levels of intersubjectivity: (a) primary intersubjectivity or intercorporeality, (b) - secondary intersubjectivity or perspective-taking, and (c) tertiary intersubjectivity, implying a self-other metaperspective. On this basis, disturbances on these different levels in autism and schizophrenia are described.