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标题：Review of Jay A. Hamm, Bethany L. Leonhardt, Rebecca L. Fogley and Paul H. Lysaker’s “Literature as an Exploration of the Phenomenology of Schizophrenia: Disorder and Recovery in Denis Johnson’s Jesus’ Son”
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作者：Simon de Bourcier
期刊名称：Journal of Literature and Science
印刷版ISSN：1754-646X
出版年度：2015
卷号：8
期号：1
页码：106-107
DOI：10.12929/jls.08.1.08
出版社：University of Glamorgan
摘要：Jay A. Hamm and his co-authors argue that Denis Johnson's 1992 short-story cycle Jesus' Son offers "a rich, nuanced first-person view into schizophrenia that is not accessible through quantitative research" (84). Justifying their method by citing a number of studies which suggest that fiction may enable readers to develop "empathy" and "skills in ethical reflection" (84), the authors aim to show that Jesus' Son "adds depth to our understanding of the phenomenology of schizophrenia" (84). The article details three "deeply intertwined" aspects of the "phenomenology of psychosis," which are represented in Johnson's stories, before arguing that they can together be conceptualised as a "partial collapse" of the processes which constitute "synthetic metacognition"; that is, the "mental processes" which enable a person to "form complex mental representations of him- or herself and others, to think about his or her own mind and those of others and to use this information to adaptively deal with life's challenges" (87).