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Denmark
2026

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D-Index
84
Citations
22269
World Ranking
291
National Ranking
4

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Denmark Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Denmark Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Denmark Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Denmark Leader Award

Overview

Josef Parnas is affiliated with the University of Copenhagen in Denmark and has contributed extensively to research in medicine, arts and humanities, and psychology. Their work predominantly spans psychiatry and mental health, philosophy, and clinical psychology, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach to understanding complex mental health conditions.

Their recent publications demonstrate a focused interest in schizophrenia and related disorders. Notable papers include "Double bookkeeping and schizophrenia spectrum: divided unified phenomenal consciousness" (2020, European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience), "The Self in the Spectrum: A Meta-analysis of the Evidence Linking Basic Self-Disorders and Schizophrenia" (2020, Schizophrenia Bulletin), and "What is obsession? Differentiating obsessive-compulsive disorder and the schizophrenia spectrum" (2022, Schizophrenia Research).

Other significant publications in leading journals within the field include:

  • The Self and Its Prolonged Intrinsic Neural Timescale in Schizophrenia (2020, Schizophrenia Bulletin)
  • Disordered Selfhood in Schizophrenia and the Examination of Anomalous Self-Experience: Accumulated Evidence and Experience (2021, Psychopathology)

Parnas's collaborative work with frequent co-authors includes associations with Karl Erik Sandsten, Julie Nordgaard, Andreas Rosén Rasmussen, Mads Gram Henriksen, and Annick Urfer-Parnas. This network reflects ongoing partnerships that contribute to a sustained body of research outputs.

Their research findings have been published consistently in key scientific venues, including:

  • Schizophrenia Research
  • Schizophrenia Bulletin
  • Psychopathology
  • European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience
  • Frontiers in Psychiatry

Josef Parnas's work addresses a range of topics relevant to mental health and psychiatry, covering areas such as:

  • Mental Health and Psychiatry
  • Schizophrenia research and treatment
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Neurology and Historical Studies
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
  • Personality Disorders and Psychopathology

In addition to articles, Parnas has contributed to academic literature through book publications. For example, they authored "Levels of Analysis in Psychopathology," published by Cambridge University Press in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Schizophrenia, Consciousness, and the Self

    Louis A. Sass;Josef Parnas

  • EASE: Examination of Anomalous Self-Experience.

    Josef Parnas;Paul Møller;Tilo Kircher;Jørgen Thalbitzer

  • Phenomenology of anomalous self-experience in early schizophrenia.

    Josef Parnas;Peter Handest

  • Transdiagnostic psychiatry: a systematic review

    Paolo Fusar-Poli;Marco Solmi;Natascia Brondino;Cathy Davies

  • A Disappearing Heritage: The Clinical Core of Schizophrenia

    Josef Parnas;Josef Parnas

  • Perinatal complications and clinical outcome within the schizophrenia spectrum.

    J. Parnas;F. Schulsinger;T. W. Teasdale;H. Schulsinger

  • Rediscovering Psychopathology: The Epistemology and Phenomenology of the Psychiatric Object

    Josef Parnas;Louis A. Sass;Dan Zahavi

  • A global perspective on genetic variation at the ADH genes reveals unusual patterns of linkage disequilibrium and diversity.

    Michael V. Osier;Andrew J. Pakstis;Himla Soodyall;David Comas

  • Parallel Factor Analysis as an exploratory tool for wavelet transformed event-related EEG.

    Morten Mørup;Lars Kai Hansen;Christoph S. Herrmann;Josef Parnas

  • Developing a SNP panel for forensic identification of individuals.

    Kenneth K. Kidd;Andrew J. Pakstis;William C. Speed;Elena L. Grigorenko

  • Developmental Brain Abnormalities in the Offspring of Schizophrenic Mothers: I. Contributions of Genetic and Perinatal Factors

    T D Cannon;S A Mednick;J Parnas;F Schulsinger

  • Lifetime DSM-III-R diagnostic outcomes in the offspring of schizophrenic mothers. Results from the Copenhagen High-Risk Study.

    Josef Parnas;Tyrone D. Cannon;Bjorn Jacobsen;Hanne Schulsinger

  • Self, Solipsism, and Schizophrenic Delusions

    Josef Stefan Stanislaw Parnas;L.A. Sass

  • The psychiatric interview: Validity, structure, and subjectivity

    Julie Nordgaard;Louis A. Sass;Josef Parnas

  • Schizophrenia and Oxidative Stress: Glutamate Cysteine Ligase Modifier as a Susceptibility Gene

    Mirjana Tosic;Jurg Ott;Sandra Barral;Pierre Bovet

  • Disordered self in the schizophrenia spectrum: a clinical and research perspective.

    Josef Parnas;Mads Gram Henriksen

  • Schizophrenic Delusions: A Phenomenological Approach

    Pierre Bovet;Josef Parnas

  • The Copenhagen High-risk Project, 1962–86

    Sarnoff A. Mednick;Josef Parnas;Fini Schulsinger

  • Anomalies of subjective experience in schizophrenia and psychotic bipolar illness.

    J Parnas;J Parnas;P Handest;D Saebye;L Jansson

  • Schizophrenic autism: clinical phenomenology and pathogenetic implications.

    Josef Parnas;Pierre Bovet;Dan Zahavi

  • Behavioral precursors of schizophrenia spectrum: A prospective study.

    Josef Parnas;Fini Schulsinger;Hanne Schulsinger;Sarnoff A. Mednick

Frequent Co-Authors

Louis A. Sass
Louis A. Sass Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Sarnoff A. Mednick
Sarnoff A. Mednick University of Southern California
Dan Zahavi
Dan Zahavi University of Copenhagen
Andrea Raballo
Andrea Raballo University of Perugia
Danny Koren
Danny Koren University of Haifa
Thomas W. Teasdale
Thomas W. Teasdale University of Copenhagen
Barnaby Nelson
Barnaby Nelson University of Melbourne
Kenneth K. Kidd
Kenneth K. Kidd Yale University
Erik Lykke Mortensen
Erik Lykke Mortensen University of Copenhagen
Andrew J. Pakstis
Andrew J. Pakstis Yale University

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