TY  - JOUR
A1  - Allé, Mélissa C.
A1  - Potheegadoo, Jevita
A1  - Köber, Christin
A1  - Schneider, Priscille
A1  - Coutelle, Romain
A1  - Habermas, Tilmann
A1  - Danion, Jean-Marie
A1  - Berna, Fabrice
T1  - Impaired coherence of life narratives of patients with schizophrenia
T2  - Scientific reports
N2  - Self-narratives of patients have received increasing interest in schizophrenia since they offer unique material to study patients’ subjective experience related to their illness, in particular the alteration of self that accompanies schizophrenia. In this study, we investigated the life narratives and the ability to integrate and bind memories of personal events into a coherent narrative in 27 patients with schizophrenia and 26 controls. Four aspects of life narratives were analyzed: coherence with cultural concept of biography, temporal coherence, causal-motivational coherence and thematic coherence. Results showed that in patients cultural biographical knowledge is preserved, whereas temporal coherence is partially impaired. Furthermore, causal-motivational and thematic coherence are significantly impaired: patients have difficulties explaining how events have modeled their identity, and integrating different events along thematic lines. Impairment of global causal-motivational and thematic coherence was significantly correlated with patients’ executive dysfunction, suggesting that cognitive impairment observed in patients could affect their ability to construct a coherent narrative of their life by binding important events to their self. This study provides new understanding of the cognitive deficits underlying self-disorders in patients with schizophrenia. Our findings suggest the potential usefulness of developing new therapeutic interventions to improve autobiographical reasoning skills.
Y1  - 2015
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/41233
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-412330
SN  - 2045-2322
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VL  - 5
IS  - 12934
SP  - 1
EP  - 10
PB  - Nature Publishing Group
CY  - London
ER  -