Marcin Moskalewicz

Heidelberg University · Psychiatric Clinic

Purpose . To explore lived time of women with ovarian cancer during chemotherapy. Methods . Consensual qualitative research combined with descriptive phenomenology on a purposive sample of 9 middle-aged women (aged between 33 and 52 years, mean age 41.7) with ovarian cancer undergoing chemotherapy in an outpatient chemo center in a clinical hospit...

Aim: The article presents the basic tenants of dialectical phenomenological psychopathology (DPP) of temporal experience in substance-related disorders. Results: DPP examines the conditions of possibility of lived experiences. It goes beyond mere qualitative descriptions of subjective psychological states to identify their pre-reflective structures...

Following a previous phenomenological study of lived time in ovarian cancer, this research aims to find how the frequency of chemotherapy affects orientation in time (the so-called “chemo-clock”) and the awareness of mortality of service users with various cancers. For this purpose, a variation of a front-loaded phenomenological method that combine...

This paper presents and discusses a manuscript by one of the core founders of phenomenological psychopathology, Erwin W. Straus, concerning psychotic disorders of space and time (see attached Supplementary material). Written in June 1946, the manuscript is published for the first time as supplementary material to this paper. It is a clinical case-s...

This article presents a novel theoretical perspective on the role of cognitive biases within the autism and schizophrenia spectrum by integrating the evolutionary and computational approaches. Against the background of neurodiversity, cognitive biases are presented as primary adaptive strategies, while the compensation of their shortcomings is a po...

Background: The question of the role of personal values in the constitution of and recovery from mental illness is a divisive subject discussed in contemporary psychopathology. This article criti-cally examines the psychopathological theories and contributions of Antoni Kępiński – a seminal yet internationally under-recognized Polish psychiatrist....

Purpose. Research on temporal experience in autism spectrum condition is dominated by psychophysical studies that aim to show differences in time processing or perception with neurotypical controls. On the other hand, phenomenological inquiry aims to reach the level of lived experience, but it is substantially lacking regarding this subject.Methods...

This paper synthesizes research on temporal experience in Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) from a phenomenologically grounded perspective. It advocates for a closer integration of phenomenology with empirical research results, with the specific goal of bridging the gap between theoretical and evidence-based understanding of BPD temporality. Ut...

Background. Altered temporal experience lies at the core of various psychiatric conditions, including Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). Mainstream research in psychopathology tends to explore BPD with scrutiny while neglecting other personality disorders (PD). At the same time, the dimensional approach to PD proposes looking through the disord...

Debates concerning the reliability and validity of operationalized criteria and diagnostic tools have surrounded the issue of schizophrenia diagnosis and clinical decision-making related to the disorder. The notion of the praecox feeling (PF) has played a prominent role in the discussions as an example of the possibility of a rapid and potentially...

Abnormal experiences of time (ATEs) are an established object of research in phenomenological psychopathology. Objective: The purpose of this study was the first validation of the Transdiagnostic Assessment of Temporal Experience (TATE), a structured phenomenological interview concerning ATEs in individuals with diverse mental health conditions, an...

Avoiding systemic discrimination requires investigating AI models' potential to propagate stereotypes resulting from the inherent biases of training datasets. Our study investigated how text-to-image models unintentionally perpetuate non-rational beliefs regarding autism. The research protocol involved generating images based on 53 prompts aimed at...

The aim of this study was to comparatively investigate education, job, and professional development satisfaction among intensive care unit nurses in Poland and England. A total of 258 ICU nurses from both countries were interviewed (72 Polish nurses working in Poland and 186 of various national backgrounds in England, including 50 of Polish origin)...

This innovative book offers a multidimensional exploration of the epistemological foundations of psychiatry and its major disorders. By emphasizing the importance of phenomenology in unravelling the intricate interplay between basic categories of human experience and neurobiological processes, it advocates for a shift in both psychiatric research a...

This book originates from the need to integrate a first-person perspective into mainstream academic research in psychiatry and its relation to neurology. First and foremost, it recognizes that psychiatric patients can offer unique viewpoints and insights, not only into their own pathology but into the broader and basic categories of being a person—...

In 1913 Karl Jaspers published the first edition of his Allgemeine Psychopathologie. The aim was to overcome the wealth of opinions and single schools of thought prevailing in psychiatry by creating a new systematic order of general psychopathology based on methodological considerations. To illustrate the intellectual horizon and the abundance of t...

The conference aims to present and discuss the possibilities of overcoming the gap between phenomenological and other research methodologies by integrating quantitative empirical evidence with phenomenological analysis and developing hybrid solutions. We aim to explore possibilities to improve the validity and reliability of evidence, hypothesis te...

The study evaluates the efficacy of Conversational Artificial Intelligence (CAI) in rectifying cognitive biases and recognizing affect in human-AI interactions, which is crucial for digital mental health interventions. Cognitive biases (systematic deviations from normative thinking) affect mental health, intensifying conditions like depression and...

This chapter sheds light on phenomenological aspects of personality disorders. Although research on personality disorders (PD) has increased in the last decades, it remains relatively underexamined compared to other mental health conditions. This discrepancy is even more evident in phenomenological psychopathology. To fill this lacuna, this chapter...

Understanding the impact of cancer on the experience of time is crucial in the context of hope and recovery. This study, a follow-up to a previous qualitative study of ovarian cancer patients - explored two types of such experiences-the memory of past happiness and the limited future planning. A sociodemographic questionnaire with nine questions ab...

The Polish Chamber of Physicians and Dentists (Naczelna Izba Lekarska) and the regional chambers of physicians and dentists (Okręgowe Izby Lekarskie) are the organisational bodies of the professional self-government of physicians and dentists in Poland. They are responsible for supervising the proper and conscientious exercise of the medical profes...

Through an original interpretation of Hannah Arendt’s historiography, Marcin Moskalewicz reveals an under-acknowledged philosophy of history in her vast and variegated oeuvre, including the historical magnum opus, The Origins of Totalitarianism. Hannah Arendt’s Ambiguous Storytelling argues that the key to understanding the fragmentary thought of A...

Introduction Fleeing from war can be terrifying and result in Acute Stress Disorder (ASD), a mental health condition that can occur in the first month after a traumatic event. The study aimed to identify the prevalence of ASD among Ukrainian refugees and identify its risk factors to create a profile of the most vulnerable refugees. Methods This cr...

Disorders of temporal experience feature prominently in classical phenomenological psychopathology, regarding mostly disorders of moods and affects, but also substance use, compulsions, and schizophrenia. More recent advances in qualitative phenomenology have expanded the array of atypical experiences of interest (e.g., toward personality disorders...

Political controversies concerning the memory of historical events have adapted to the digital specificity of Twitter and are currently growing in significance. This study investigates the sentiment bias of a memory war between two major Polish political parties, the currently ruling conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party and Civic Platform (PO),...

Aim. The study aims to identify the sources and components of the so-called praecox feeling (PF) from the perspective of Polish psychiatrists who experience it and can verbalize it. Method. Qualitative analysis based on the grounded theory method, conducted on a set of open-ended statements provided by psychiatrists (N = 103) who described their fe...

It is well-known that chemotherapy brings about various adverse physical effects such as fatigue, nausea, or vomiting, and that it lowers mental well-being. It is less known that it desynchronizes patients with social environment. This study explores the temporal aspects and challenges of chemotherapy. Three groups equal in size and distinguished a...

Space and time are basic forms of experiencing. Our experiences not only occur in time, they have – without exception – an inherent temporal content, and, if not all, certainly our sensory experiences are related to spatial orders. It is therefore to be expected that disorders of space and time would present themselves frequently in psychopathology...

This theoretical paper addresses the issue of epistemic injustice with particular reference to autism. Injustice is epistemic when harm is performed without adequate reason and is caused by or related to access to knowledge production and processing, e.g., concerning racial or ethnic minorities or patients. The paper argues that both mental health...

Nous présentons ici une traduction française d’un article récent dans lequel les auteurs se penchent sur les biais cognitifs et les fausses croyances chez les experts dans le domaine de l’autisme. Les auteurs, philosophes, abordent principalement la question de la compétence clinique et pointue (ou qui devrait l’être) chez les experts à la cour de...

Background While it is well known that illnesses such as cancer modify the experience of time, the impact of the rhythm and length of treatment on patients’ time perspectives remains unknown. Methods A short version of Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory and Transcendental Future Perspective Questionnaire as well as a demographic questionnaire on...

The non-autistic majority often judges people on the autism spectrum through the prism of numerous stereotypes, prejudices, cognitive biases, or, generally speaking, non-rational beliefs. This causes problems in autistic people’s everyday lives, as they often feel stigmatized, marginalized, and they internalize deficit-laden narratives about themse...

Background: Although the experience of reception of borderline personality disorder (BPD) diagnosis was previously researched, the process of mental adjustment to this diagnosis remains both empirically and theoretically unexplored. Theoretical concepts describing the structure of lived time in borderline patients, which underlies adjustment to di...

This paper proposes a phenomenological hypothesis that psychosis entails a disturbance of the twofold process of the indication function of kinesthesia and the presentification function of touch that affects the constitution of bodily subjectivity. Recent functional connectivity studies showed that the increased synchrony between the right anterior...

Fleeing from war, witnessing death and destruction and leaving family behind can be frightening, stressful and result in Acute Stress Disorder (ASD), a mental health condition that can occur in the first month after a traumatic event. This cross-sectional study of 637 Ukrainian war refugees used two structured surveys. The first consisted of questi...

The Praecox Feeling (PF) is a specific experience that arises in a psychiatrist in the encounter with a person with schizophrenia. It is classically described as an atmospheric feeling of strangeness and unease. Several studies have shown that psychiatrists take this subjective experience seriously into consideration in diagnosis. However, this phe...

Currently, anomalous lived temporality is not included in the main diagnostic criteria or standard symptom checklists. In this article, we present the Transdiagnostic Assessment of Temporal Experience (TATE), a structured interview that can be used by researchers and clinicians without a comprehensive phenomenological background to explore abnormal...

Background: The psychopathological notion of the Praecox Feeling (PF) refers to an experience of strangeness and bizarreness that arises in a clinician during contact with a patient with schizophrenia. There is evidence that psychiatrists take advantage of this feeling in their diagnostic decisions despite the domination of an operationalized diagn...

Purpose To uncover the experience of time in women undergoing chemotherapy for ovarian cancer. Methods A combination of consensual qualitative research and Giorgi’s descriptive phenomenology. Results The key phenomenon found and pre-reflectively organizing the patients’ experience was the temporal paradox of chemotherapy—a sense of both accelerat...

The paper examines both the phenomenology of the manic self as well as critical aspects of manic neurobiology, focusing, with respect to both domains, on manic temporality. We argue that the distortions of lived time in mania exceed mere acceleration and are fundamental for manic affectivity. Mania involves radical acceleration and radical asynchro...

The goal of this paper is to introduce Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences’ thematic issue on disordered temporalities. The authors begin by discussing the main reason for the neglect of temporal experience in present-day psychiatric nosologies, mainly, its reduction to clock time. Methodological challenges facing research on temporal experien...

Kazimierz Filip Wize (1873–1953) was a Polish multidisciplinary scholar, a microbiolo-gist, a lepidopterologist, a psychiatrist, and a philosopher. He was an avid promoter of care of the mentally ill. After defending a Ph.D. in medicine in Munich (Germany) in 1899, Wize specialized in bacteriology at the Pasteur Institute in Paris. In 1907 he defen...

The "Praecox Feeling" (PF) is a classical concept referring to a characteristic feeling of bizarreness experienced by a psychiatrist while encountering a person with schizophrenia. Although the PF used to be considered a core symptom of the schizophrenia spectrum, it fell into disuse since the spread of operationalized diagnostic methods (Diagnosti...

This chapter introduces the content and the methodological premises of the book Jewish Medicine and Healthcare in Central Eastern Europe. Integrating academic disciplines from medical history to philology and Jewish studies, the book geographically concentrates on what is today Poland and Germany (and the former Russian, Prussian and Austro-Hungari...

Is ‘Jewish medicine’ a valid historical category? Does it represent a collective constituted by the interplay of medical, ethnic and religious cultures? Integrating academic disciplines from medical history to philology and Jewish studies, this book aims at answering this question historically by presenting comprehensive coverage of Jewish medical...

This paper gives an overview of three discourses of time in philosophy ofmedicine distinguished by the authors: the discourse of immortality (aiming at an objectiveprolongation of life), the discourse of the present (aiming at the quality of subjectivetemporal experience) and the discourse of eternity (aiming at transgressing the limits oftemporali...

This paper argues that intuition plays a role in the diagnosis of schizophrenia and presents its phenomenological rationale. A discussion of self-assessment questionnaires and empirical studies in the clinical setting provides evidence that despite the prevalence of operational diagnosis, the intuitive judgment of schizophrenia continues to take pl...

This paper argues in favor of two related theses. First, due to a fundamental, biologically grounded world-openness, human culture is a biological imperative. As both biology and culture evolve historically, cultures rise and fall and the diversity of the human species develops. Second, in this historical process of rise and fall, abnormality plays...

The “criteriological revolution” has profoundly modified the practice and teaching of psychiatric nosology. DSM-III was based upon third-person data which aimed to be context- and observer-independent. The origin of this epistemological shift lie in the late 1970's reliability concerns about diagnosis in disorders such as schizophrenia (Aboraya, 20...

The article covers Erwin W. Straus’ (1891–1975) views on the problem of time and temporal experience in the context of psychopathology. Beside Straus’ published scholarship, including his papers dealing exclusively with the subject of time, the sources utilized in this essay comprise several of Straus’ unpublished manuscripts on temporality (all fr...

The article presents Erwin W. Straus’ unpublished manuscript “Temporal Horizons” from 1952. In the paper, in addition to an extensive philosophical discussion with St. Augustine, Henri Bergson and Sigmund Freud, Straus elaborates on his idea of a unified view of temporal experience, comprising both the personal and the impersonal dimensions of time...

Agradecemos a los autores, Michael A. Schwartz, Marcin Moskalewicz y Osborne P. Wiggins, su aceptación para que se publique en este blog la presente versión en español del original en inglés, realizada por Gladys L. Portuondo, según: Resumen: Los temas de la Revista Americana de Psiquiatría (American Journal of Psychiatry, nota de la traductora) de...

This paper argues that duality accounts of time, as exemplified by Henri Bergson's, Edmund Husserl's and John McTaggart's ideas, parallel the decomposition of temporal experience in depressive psychosis into objective and subjective dimensions of time. The paper also proposes to comprehend the full-fledged depressive temporal delusion, in which the...

December 2015 and March 2016 issues of the American Journal of Psychiatry contain a debate focusing on the legacy of Emil Kraepelin, widely considered one of the founders if not the iconic founder of modern scientific psychiatry. The authors, Eric J. Engstrom and Kenneth S. Kendler, challenge the so-called neo-Kraepelinian view of Kraepelin and arg...

Introduction: We propose a re-examination of the classical notion of the Praecox Feeling (PF), coined by H.C. Rümke in 1941. PF denotes a specific unease arising in the encounter with a person with schizophrenia and, in Rümke’s and others’ account, enables a skilled clinician to diagnose schizophrenia in the first minute of an interview. The notion...

Nowadays, cosmopolitan populations increasingly applaud the broad physical, ethnic, racial, and cultural diversity of human beings. So long as we behave within sanctioned norms. This presentation will focus upon the above paradox: In contrast to delighting in physical, ethnic and cultural expressions of human diversity, present-day cosmopolitan soc...

Manic disturbances of temporality are underemphasized in present-day accounts. For example, they are not included among criteria for manic episodes in DSM or ICD. Nonetheless, as already claimed by Binswanger (1964), aberrant temporality is core to the disorder. Persons with mania live almost exclusively in the present and hardly into the future. E...

Nowadays, we increasing value the broad physical, ethnic, racial, and cultural diversity of human beings. “How wonderful that humans come in all sorts of sizes, shapes, colors, ethnic groups and cultures.” So long as we conduct our behaviour within sanctioned norms. This presentation will focus upon the above paradox: In stark contrast to our delig...

Disturbances of temporality in mania, underemphasized in present-day accounts, are nonetheless core to understanding both the phenomenology and the neurobiology of the disorder: – phenomenology: already in 1954, Binswanger had articulated that persons with mania live almost exclusively in the present and hardly at all into the future. Especially in...

Conference on Sleep, Consciousness and Lucid Dreaming featuring Wallace Mendelson, M.D., David Presti, Ph. D., and Stephen LaBerge, Ph.D.

The article addresses several difficulties associated with applying the concept of lived time in the phenomenological psychopathology. The author distinguishes lived time from clock time and argues that a translation of natural-scientific findings on clock time perception into categories of lived experience and vice versa is problematic. Simultaneo...

The aim of this study was to qualitatively assess the disturbances of lived time in individuals with multiple drug dependencies. The research was conducted at Monar-Markot Center for Humanitarian Aid in Roznowice (Poland) in 2014 through direct, non-disguised observational study in a therapeutic community setting. Overall, 10 clients with multiple...

The article gives an account of various disturbed experiences of time from a phenomenological perspective. The author distinguishes three levels for addressing variations of temporal experience—the temporal structure of consciousness itself, the actual experience of time, and the sociopolitical temporality. He excludes the psychological type of arg...

The article examines distortions of lived time in addiction from a phenomenological perspective and presents their three ideal-typical qualities concerning: (1) daily life, (2) drug ecstasy, and (3) recovery. Regarding the first dimension, the following experiences are being discussed: the highly constricted present, lack of relationship with the f...

What is pathological regarding time experience and, more specifically, regarding human experience of the future – by all means the most important dimension of time? Is there a standard, neutral notion of the future, against which particular abnormal experiences could be assessed as such? Alternatively, is there, among the many context-dependent and...

What is pathological regarding time experience and, more specifically, regarding human experience of the future – by all means the most important dimension of time? Is there a standard, neutral notion of the future, against which particular abnormal experiences could be assessed as such? Alternatively, is there, among the many context-dependent and...

The article discusses the problem of whether being enclosed in one’s private, non-sharable world of experience can be called genuine madness, and whether sharing ones fixed beliefs precludes delusional disorder. Popular examples to illustrate the thesis that neither is the case come from the movies: Der Untergang by Oliver Hirschbiegel and Blue Jas...

The question of how much past do we need for having a healthy life has been most famously asked by Friedrich Nietzsche in his On the Use and Abuse of History for Life, written in 1873 and published next year. Here it is re-asked, 140 years later, to five respondents of respected reputation in the field of philosophy of history, namely Frank Ankersm...

Kluczem do zrozumienia fragmentarycznej myśli Hannah Arendt jest filozofia historii zarówno w znaczeniu spekulatywnym, jak i krytycznym. Odpowiedź Arendt na totalitaryzm – na zwycięstwo fizjologii nad polityką – jest jednocześnie przemyślana i radykalna. Totalitaryzm nie okazuje się wyłącznie systemem sprawowania władzy, lecz stanowi skrajny przypa...

This is a review of the book entitled “Medycyna, moja miłość” (“Medicine, my love”), which was written by an internist from the town of Nowy Targ, Stanisław Snopek. The book is not scientific in nature and is a piece of memoir literature.

The interview concerns, first, Frank Ankersmit's last book on Sublime Historical Experience and, second, his ideas on political philosophy and his opinions on the current political situation of the European Union. In the first part Ankersmit clarifies several ambiguities concerning his notion of historical experience. How does it relate to the tran...