Queering the Schizophrenic Body: Re-orientated nerves

Abstract

In this paper I explore how some insights about queer embodiment can be applied to the subtleties of psychotic experience, introducing a recovery-oriented  dialogue between a queer-phenomenological and phenomenological-psychiatric approach. More specifically, I show how some concepts from Sara Ahmed can  complement the ipseity-disturbance model, with which Louis Sass and his colleagues have re-introduced phenomenological psychiatry to mainstream  schizophrenia research.