Author/Editor		Pienkos, Elizabeth; Škodlar, Borut; Sass, Louis Arnorsson
Title		Expressing experience
Type		članek
Vol. and No.		Letnik 21, št. 1
Publication year		2022
Volume		str. 53-71
ISSN		1568-7759 - Phenomenology and the cognitive sciences
Language		eng
Abstract		This paper outlines several of the challenges that are inherent in any attempt to communicate subjective experience to others, particularly in the context of a clinical interview. It presents the phenomenological interview as a way of effectively responding to these challenges, which may be especially important when attempting to understand the profound experiential transformations that take place in schizophrenia. Features of language experience in schizophrenia—including changes in interpersonal orientation, a sense of the arbitrariness of language, and a desire for faithful communication of experience (including of ineffable transformations of experience)—are described, together with discussion of their relevance for the interview context. Furthermore, the interview presents a unique context in which both intersubjective and interpersonal aspects of experience will be described as well as evoked. It is proposed that phenomenological interviewers should not only be familiar with these and other experiences that can occur in schizophrenia, but also capable of applying the techniques of phenomenological and hermeneutic methods in order to understand the descriptions of interviewees with sensitivity and accuracy.
Keywords		schizophrenia phenomenological psychopathology clinical interview shizofrenija fenomenološka psihopatologija klinični intervju