Self-images and related autobiographical memories in schizophrenia

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• 作者：Mehdi Bennouna-Greene^a ; ^b ; ^c ; ¹ ; Fabrice Berna^a ; ^b ; ^c ; ¹ ; Martin A. Conway^d ; Clare J. Rathbone^d ; Pierre Vidailhet^a ; ^b ; ^c ; Jean-Marie Danion^a ; ^b ; ^c ; ^{jean-marie.danion@chru-strasbourg.fr}
• 关键词：Schizophrenia ; Autobiographical memory ; Self ; Self-images ; Coherence ; Emotions ; Distinctiveness ; Autobiographical reasoning ; Conscious recollection ; Memory specificity
• 刊名：Consciousness and Cognition
• 出版年：2012
• 期刊代码：127_10538100
• 类别：cp
• 出版时间：March, 2012
• 卷：21
• 期：1
• 页码：247-257
• 文件大小：289 K

摘要

Schizophrenia is a severe mental illness, which affects sense of identity. While the ability to have a coherent vision of the self (i.e., self-images) relies partly on its reciprocal relationships with autobiographical memories, little is known about how memories ground 鈥渟elf-images鈥?in schizophrenia. Twenty-five patients with schizophrenia and 25 controls were asked to give six autobiographical memories related to four self-statements they considered essential for defining their identity. Results showed that patients鈥?self-images were more passive than those of controls. Autobiographical memories underlying self-images were less thematically linked to these self-images in patients. We also found evidence of a weakened sense of self and a deficient organization of autobiographical memories grounding the self in schizophrenia. These abnormalities may account for the poor cohesiveness of the self in schizophrenia.