Mediumistic experiences: phenomenology and implications for psychopathology

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Dr Jianan Bao speaks on the topic of mediumistic experiences, their phenomenology and implications for psychopathology

Please join us for the second seminar of the Maudsley Philosophy Group&#x27;s autumn seminar series in which we welcome Dr Jianan Bao, Academic Clinical Fellow at King&#x27;s College London, who will be speaking on the topic of the phenomenology of mediumistic experiences and its implications for understanding psychopathology.Abstract:Altered self-experiences (ASEs) are a category of experiences involving a loss of sense of ownership or control over one’s thoughts and actions, and perceptions without external stimuli. These are features of symptoms which span multiple psychiatric diagnoses including psychotic and dissociative disorders. ASEs are also reported by people with no need for clinical care, without distress or reduction in functioning, in ways that are often valued by their communities. Previous research has demonstrated persistent ASEs in healthy individuals belonging to religious and spiritual groups, such as spiritualist mediums. In this talk I will discuss a study which aims to develop a mixed qualitative and quantitative method to categorise the phenomenology of ASEs in spiritualist mediums. In particular, I will consider the presuppositions of using descriptive psychopathology as a source for describing non-pathological experience, and what can be learned from using phenomenological exploration of non-pathological experience to help identify shared and distinct features of psychopathology.

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