Louis Sa
Biographic Data
| ID | 254452 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Louis Sa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Louis |
| FAMILY NAME | Sa |
| SIGNATURE | SÁ L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2694-0423 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Self-disorders in schizophrenia as disorders of transparency
Understanding alterations of selfhood (termed self-disorders or self-disturbances) that are considered typical of the schizophrenia-spectrum is a central focus of phenomenological research. The currently most influential way of phenomenologically conceiving self-disorders in schizophrenia is as disorders of the so-called most basic or “minimal self”. In this paper, we first highlight some challenges for the minimal self-view of self-disorders, fo…
Autism and schizophrenia spectrum disorder
Despite considerable overlap in outer manifestations, we found important qualitative differences that point to the centrality of a disorder of ipseity in the SSD versus of primary intersubjectivity in ASD
Metaphor, magic, and mental disorder
This article offers an epistemological, poetic, and ontological reading of the ways of knowing regarding mental disorders that are characteristic of the traditional healers ( curanderas and curanderos) of an Indigenous group in Mexico. The study is based on ethnographic interviews with traditional Purépecha (Tarascan) healers in rural Michoacan. Interviews focused on local conceptions of emotional and mental illness, especially Nervios, Susto, an…
Expressing experience
“Robbed of my life”
Depersonalization/derealization disorder ( DPDR ) is classified as a dissociative disorder in the DSM 5. It is noteworthy that the symptoms of depersonalization and derealization are commonly found in many other psychological disorders, including schizophrenia spectrum disorders, while phenomenological features of schizophrenia are commonly found in DPDR . The current study attempts to clarify these apparent similarities via highly detailed pheno…
“A flaw in the great diamond of the world”
Intersecting perspectives
Husserl, Heidegger, and the paradox of subjectivity
Everywhere and Nowhere
This essay argues for the necessity of a phenomenological perspective on mind and mental disorder while also emphasizing the inherent difficulty of adopting such an orientation. Here I adopt a via negativa approach—by considering three forms of error that the phenomenologists Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty recognize as needing to be guarded against, lest they subvert the project of attaining an adequate understanding …
The Experience of Persons with Parkinson’s Disease
This study seeks to understand the subjective experience or lived world typical of patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD). It uses qualitative methodology, grounded in a hermeneutic-phenomenological perspective, to consider lived experience in a small sample of 7 individuals (4 published accounts, 3 subjects interviewed in depth). The analysis identified four themes that appear to be characteristic of the experience of PD: A) Denial, B) Emotion a…
The neurophenomenology of early psychosis
Serious Dilettantism
To sum up: If anyone thinks he can exclude philosophy and leave it aside as useless he will eventually be defeated by it in some obscure form or other. 1 Karl Jaspers If we define "philosophy" simply as "love of knowledge," then it is obviously a requirement for any serious scientific, scholarly, or professional pursuit -in whatever field. Philosophy's relevance is also wide-ranging or even universal when we define it as the most basic or general…
Lacan
A New History of Ourselves, in the Shadow of our Obsessions and Compulsions
This paper aims to show why a systematic history of obsessive and compulsive symptoms (today called OCD) offers more than a special chapter in the history of psychiatry. It opens a window on the genesis of the Western individual by casting new light on the functions of self-restraint, self-control, and the self-monitoring of intentions and moral feelings (guilt, anxiety), as well as on the formation of a sense of individual autonomy and 'interior…
IntrospectionIntrospection and schizophrenia
Anomalous self-experience in depersonalization and schizophrenia
Eklutna Glacier, Alaska
Phenomenological Psychopathology and Schizophrenia
The present paper clarifies key issues in phenomenology and phenomenological psychopathology (especially of schizophrenia) through a critique of a recent article that addresses these topics. Topics include (1) Phenomenology's role in clarifying issues not amenable to purely empirical methods; (2) The relationship between a phenomenological approach (focusing on the subjective life of the patient) and empirical science, including neuroscience; (3)…
Foucault et l'autoréflexion moderne
Schizophrenic Person' or `Person with Schizophrenia'
Most contemporary experts and mental health advocates would reject the term `schizophrenic', whether used as noun or adjective. The terminology they prefer—`person with schizophrenia'—seems safely to nominalize the ailment and set it apart from the afflicted person, treating the disease entity as a foreign body. The present essay does not advocate rejecting the current terminology. It offers a critical perspective on the contemporary consensus by…
The Magnificent Harlequin
(2001). The Magnificent Harlequin. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis: Vol. 82, No. 5, pp. 997-1018
Mind, Self and Psychopathology
The past decade has seen a significant rapprochement between philosophy and the study of psychopathology in the English-speaking world. There is encouraging evidence of genuine dialogue: many philosophers, psychiatrists and psychologists are interested not only in how recent philosophical work on mind and self can increase our understanding of anomalous and paradoxical aspects of various disorders, but also in the ways these disorders challenge t…
Analyzing and Deconstructing Psychopathology
This review discusses two books. Philosophical Psychopathology is an anthology of articles by philosophers in the Anglo-American philosophical tradition who address themselves to a disparate assortment of topics—including schizophrenia, MPD, autism, blindsight, diagnostic classification and the problem of despair. In general, the articles display admirable conceptual rigor, but are often accompanied by a distant and rather abstract grasp of psych…
Hoffman's Ritual and Spontaneity
Interpreting Schizophrenia
Psychoanalysis and the Hermeneutic Turn
Through a discussion of Donald Spence's Narrative Truth and Historical Truth, a critical introduction to the hermeneutic or interpretive perspective is presented. Spence's book has generally been assumed to offer a hermeneutic reformulation of psychoanalysis. However, its presuppositions are incompatible with fundamental tenets of contemporary hermeneutic thought, as expressed in the philosophies of Heidegger, Gadamer, and the later Wittgenstein.…
Phenomenological Psychopathology and Schizophrenia
The present paper clarifies key issues in phenomenology and phenomenological psychopathology (especially of schizophrenia) through a critique of a recent article that addresses these topics. Topics include (1) Phenomenology's role in clarifying issues not amenable to purely empirical methods; (2) The relationship between a phenomenological approach (focusing on the subjective life of the patient) and empirical science, including neuroscience; (3)…
Behaviorism and Existentialism Revisited
Some of the ontological and epistemological underpinnings of behavioral and existential systems of psychology were examined with the aim of elucidating neglected parallels and affinities between them. The philosophical presuppositions of both behaviorism and existentialism share an inclination toward nominalism and an opposition to subjectivism. Both orientations view action in the world as the basic material out of which any conceptualization of…
Introspection, Schizophrenia, and the Fragmentation of Self
When I am melting I have no hands, I go into a doorway in order not to be trampled on. Everything is flying away from me. In the doorway I can gather together the pieces of my body. It is as if something is thrown in me, bursts me asunder. Why do I divide myself in different pieces? I feel that I am without poise, that my personality is melting and that my ego disappears and that I do not exist anymore. Everything pulls me apart.... The skin is t…
Metaphor, magic, and mental disorder
This article offers an epistemological, poetic, and ontological reading of the ways of knowing regarding mental disorders that are characteristic of the traditional healers ( curanderas and curanderos) of an Indigenous group in Mexico. The study is based on ethnographic interviews with traditional Purépecha (Tarascan) healers in rural Michoacan. Interviews focused on local conceptions of emotional and mental illness, especially Nervios, Susto, an…
A New History of Ourselves, in the Shadow of our Obsessions and Compulsions
This paper aims to show why a systematic history of obsessive and compulsive symptoms (today called OCD) offers more than a special chapter in the history of psychiatry. It opens a window on the genesis of the Western individual by casting new light on the functions of self-restraint, self-control, and the self-monitoring of intentions and moral feelings (guilt, anxiety), as well as on the formation of a sense of individual autonomy and 'interior…
Civilized madness
The Magnificent Harlequin
(2001). The Magnificent Harlequin. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis: Vol. 82, No. 5, pp. 997-1018
Hermeneutic approaches in clinical psychology
Introspection, Schizophrenia, and the Fragmentation of Self
When I am melting I have no hands, I go into a doorway in order not to be trampled on. Everything is flying away from me. In the doorway I can gather together the pieces of my body. It is as if something is thrown in me, bursts me asunder. Why do I divide myself in different pieces? I feel that I am without poise, that my personality is melting and that my ego disappears and that I do not exist anymore. Everything pulls me apart.... The skin is t…
Behaviorism and Existentialism Revisited
Some of the ontological and epistemological underpinnings of behavioral and existential systems of psychology were examined with the aim of elucidating neglected parallels and affinities between them. The philosophical presuppositions of both behaviorism and existentialism share an inclination toward nominalism and an opposition to subjectivism. Both orientations view action in the world as the basic material out of which any conceptualization of…
Psychoanalysis and the Hermeneutic Turn
Through a discussion of Donald Spence's Narrative Truth and Historical Truth, a critical introduction to the hermeneutic or interpretive perspective is presented. Spence's book has generally been assumed to offer a hermeneutic reformulation of psychoanalysis. However, its presuppositions are incompatible with fundamental tenets of contemporary hermeneutic thought, as expressed in the philosophies of Heidegger, Gadamer, and the later Wittgenstein.…
Civilized madness
From Freud's Consulting Room
Interpreting Schizophrenia
The Consolations of Counter-Narrative
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Analyzing and Deconstructing Psychopathology
This review discusses two books. Philosophical Psychopathology is an anthology of articles by philosophers in the Anglo-American philosophical tradition who address themselves to a disparate assortment of topics—including schizophrenia, MPD, autism, blindsight, diagnostic classification and the problem of despair. In general, the articles display admirable conceptual rigor, but are often accompanied by a distant and rather abstract grasp of psych…
Hoffman's Ritual and Spontaneity
Mind, Self and Psychopathology
The past decade has seen a significant rapprochement between philosophy and the study of psychopathology in the English-speaking world. There is encouraging evidence of genuine dialogue: many philosophers, psychiatrists and psychologists are interested not only in how recent philosophical work on mind and self can increase our understanding of anomalous and paradoxical aspects of various disorders, but also in the ways these disorders challenge t…
The Magnificent Harlequin
(2001). The Magnificent Harlequin. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis: Vol. 82, No. 5, pp. 997-1018
Schizophrenic Person' or `Person with Schizophrenia'
Most contemporary experts and mental health advocates would reject the term `schizophrenic', whether used as noun or adjective. The terminology they prefer—`person with schizophrenia'—seems safely to nominalize the ailment and set it apart from the afflicted person, treating the disease entity as a foreign body. The present essay does not advocate rejecting the current terminology. It offers a critical perspective on the contemporary consensus by…
Foucault et l'autoréflexion moderne
Phenomenological Psychopathology and Schizophrenia
The present paper clarifies key issues in phenomenology and phenomenological psychopathology (especially of schizophrenia) through a critique of a recent article that addresses these topics. Topics include (1) Phenomenology's role in clarifying issues not amenable to purely empirical methods; (2) The relationship between a phenomenological approach (focusing on the subjective life of the patient) and empirical science, including neuroscience; (3)…
Eklutna Glacier, Alaska
IntrospectionIntrospection and schizophrenia
Anomalous self-experience in depersonalization and schizophrenia
A New History of Ourselves, in the Shadow of our Obsessions and Compulsions
This paper aims to show why a systematic history of obsessive and compulsive symptoms (today called OCD) offers more than a special chapter in the history of psychiatry. It opens a window on the genesis of the Western individual by casting new light on the functions of self-restraint, self-control, and the self-monitoring of intentions and moral feelings (guilt, anxiety), as well as on the formation of a sense of individual autonomy and 'interior…
Lacan
The Experience of Persons with Parkinson’s Disease
This study seeks to understand the subjective experience or lived world typical of patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD). It uses qualitative methodology, grounded in a hermeneutic-phenomenological perspective, to consider lived experience in a small sample of 7 individuals (4 published accounts, 3 subjects interviewed in depth). The analysis identified four themes that appear to be characteristic of the experience of PD: A) Denial, B) Emotion a…
The neurophenomenology of early psychosis
Serious Dilettantism
To sum up: If anyone thinks he can exclude philosophy and leave it aside as useless he will eventually be defeated by it in some obscure form or other. 1 Karl Jaspers If we define "philosophy" simply as "love of knowledge," then it is obviously a requirement for any serious scientific, scholarly, or professional pursuit -in whatever field. Philosophy's relevance is also wide-ranging or even universal when we define it as the most basic or general…
Husserl, Heidegger, and the paradox of subjectivity
Everywhere and Nowhere
This essay argues for the necessity of a phenomenological perspective on mind and mental disorder while also emphasizing the inherent difficulty of adopting such an orientation. Here I adopt a via negativa approach—by considering three forms of error that the phenomenologists Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty recognize as needing to be guarded against, lest they subvert the project of attaining an adequate understanding …
Psychology (23 works) · Mental Health and Psychiatry (17 works) · Philosophy (16 works) · Epistemology (14 works) · Psychoanalysis (13 works) · Psychiatry (11 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Psychotherapist (7 works) · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (7 works) · Schizophrenia research and treatment (7 works)