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While I too greatly enjoyed May’s video, I agree with your implication that May might be making an unfounded assumption in the “recognition of the fact that insistent voices must have something important to say.” […]

I was excited to see mindfulness practice being used as a way to mediate the experiences of voice hearing, and to think about the information that voices can tell us about trauma, memory, and resilience. However, […]

I too thought your question about locating a schizophrenic person’s autobiographical self/narrative was really interesting. As I read Lowboy, I also thought about a certain dislocatedness of William’s self that […]

I like your idea of Lowboy re-entering the world when he starts experiencing the symptoms of schizophrenia. In some ways, the world re-enters him too, as his perception of the world changes. Violet and Richard […]

I really appreciated his discussion of Margaret’s story as a myth because in our stories of selves, we pick and choose which pieces are salient – the highly charged ones, and create truth from those events. Those […]

I’m glad you brought up the question of where truth-claims on the self come from, as I agree that empirical, scientific research on the brain has held the privileged position of creating the most valued knowledge […]

I’m also in agreement with you: The way that such seemingly miraculous physiological processes and their accompanying revolutionary theories has often amounted to a linear presentation of dry details has felt a […]

Thank you both for your thoughts on our little human conundrum!

I think the project of self discovery is never fully answerable, so when Hustevedt found some acceptance in the fact all these empirical […]