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Discontinuity in Personal Narrative: Some Perspectives of Patients
- Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 10, Number 4, December 2003
- pp. 297-303
- 10.1353/ppp.2004.0028
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Several clinical cases are presented to illustrate the phenomenon of discontinuity of personal narrative. These discontinuities are markedly and overtly present in the cases described, which include cases of bipolar disorder, incipient schizophrenia, dissociative disorder, and others. One of the patients suggests that they are also ubiquitous in people without psychiatric diagnoses.