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Metacognitive Function And Fragmentation In Schizophrenia: Relationship To Cognition, Self-Experience And Developing Treatments, Paul H. Lysaker, Kyle S. Minor, John T. Lysaker, Ilanit Hasson-Ohayon, Kelsey Bonfils, Jesse Hochheiser, Jenifer L. Vohs

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

Bleuler suggested that fragmentation of thought, emotion and volition were the unifying feature of the disorders he termed schizophrenia. In this paper we review research seeking to measure some of the aspects of fragmentation related to the experience of the self and others described by Bleuler. We focus on work which uses the concept of metacognition to characterize and quantify alterations or decrements in the processes by which fragments or pieces of information are integrated into a coherent sense of self and others. We describe the rationale and support for one method for quantifying metacognition and its potential to study …