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  • 2001 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Louis A. Sass is affiliated with Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Arts and Humanities, with significant contributions in Psychiatry and Mental Health, Philosophy, Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Neurology. The main topics explored in their work include Mental Health and Psychiatry, Schizophrenia Research and Treatment, Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments, Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications, Neurology and Historical Studies, Mental Health Research Topics, and Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism.

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Louis A. Sass are:

  • Delusions beyond beliefs: a critical overview of diagnostic, aetiological, and therapeutic schizophrenia research from a clinical-phenomenological perspective (2021, The Lancet Psychiatry)
  • Uncovering the realities of delusional experience in schizophrenia: a qualitative phenomenological study in Belgium (2021, The Lancet Psychiatry)
  • Improving treatments for psychotic disorders: beyond cognitive behaviour therapy for psychosis (2020, Psychosis)
  • Self-Disorder in Schizophrenia: A Revised View (1. Comprehensive Review-Dualities of Self- and World-Experience) (2023, Schizophrenia Bulletin)
  • Self-Disorder in Schizophrenia: A Revised View (2. Theoretical Revision-Hyperreflexivity) (2023, Schizophrenia Bulletin)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Louis A. Sass include:

  • Jasper Feyaerts
  • Barnaby Nelson
  • Stijn Vanheule
  • Inez Myin-Germeys
  • Jessica Hartmann

Work by Louis A. Sass has been published frequently in venues such as:

  • The Lancet Psychiatry
  • Schizophrenia Bulletin
  • Schizophrenia Research
  • Psychosis
  • Psychopathology

In 2001, Louis A. Sass was recognized as a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA), reflecting their standing in the field of psychology.

Best Publications

  • Schizophrenia, Consciousness, and the Self

    Louis A. Sass;Josef Parnas

  • The Paradoxes of Delusion: Wittgenstein, Schreber, and the Schizophrenic Mind

    Louis Arnorsson Sass

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

    Josef Parnas;Louis A. Sass;Dan Zahavi

  • 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

  • Self-disturbance and schizophrenia: Structure, specificity, pathogenesis (Current issues, New directions)

    Louis A. Sass

  • EAWE: Examination of Anomalous World Experience.

    Louis Sass;Elizabeth Pienkos;Borut Skodlar;Giovanni Stanghellini;Giovanni Stanghellini

  • Disturbance of Minimal Self (Ipseity) in Schizophrenia: Clarification and Current Status

    Barnaby Nelson;Josef Parnas;Louis A. Sass

  • Self-experience in the prodromal phases of schizophrenia: A pilot study of first-admissions

    Josef Parnas;Lennart Jansson;Louis A. Sass;Peter Handest

  • What is Bizarre in Bizarre Delusions? A Critical Review

    M. Cermolacce;L. Sass;J. Parnas

  • Varieties of Self Disorder: A Bio-Pheno-Social Model of Schizophrenia

    Louis Sass;Juan P Borda;Luis Madeira;Elizabeth Pienkos

  • What are the neurocognitive correlates of basic self-disturbance in schizophrenia?: Integrating phenomenology and neurocognition. Part 1 (Source monitoring deficits)

    B. Nelson;T.J. Whitford;S. Lavoie;L.A. Sass

  • A disturbed sense of self in the psychosis prodrome: linking phenomenology and neurobiology.

    Barnaby Nelson;Alexander Fornito;Alexander Fornito;Ben J Harrison;Murat Yucel

  • What are the neurocognitive correlates of basic self-disturbance in schizophrenia?: Integrating phenomenology and neurocognition: Part 2 (Aberrant salience)

    B. Nelson;T.J. Whitford;S. Lavoie;L.A. Sass

  • Anomalous self-experience in depersonalization and schizophrenia: A comparative investigation

    Louis Sass;Elizabeth Pienkos;Barnaby Nelson;Nick Medford;Nick Medford

  • Schizophrenia, Modernism, and the "Creative Imagination": On Creativity and Psychopathology

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  • Explaining schizophrenia: the relevance of phenomenology

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  • Madness and modernism

    Louis Sass

  • Phenomenological psychopathology and schizophrenia: Contemporary approaches and misunderstandings

    Louis Sass;Josef Parnas;Dan Zahavi

  • Self and World in Schizophrenia: Three Classic Approaches

    Louis Arnorsson Sass

  • Hermeneutics and psychological theory: Interpretive perspectives on personality, psychotherapy, and psychopathology.

    Stanley B. Messer;Louis Arnorsson Sass;Robert L. Woolfolk

  • Phenomenology of self-disturbances in schizophrenia: Some research findings and directions

    Louis Arnorsson Sass;Josef Parnas

Frequent Co-Authors

Barnaby Nelson
Barnaby Nelson University of Melbourne
Giovanni Stanghellini
Giovanni Stanghellini University of Florence
Robert L. Woolfolk
Robert L. Woolfolk Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Kelly Allott
Kelly Allott University of Melbourne
Thomas Fuchs
Thomas Fuchs University of Göttingen
Eduard Vieta
Eduard Vieta University of Barcelona
Christoph Mundt
Christoph Mundt Heidelberg University
Emma Barkus
Emma Barkus Northumbria University
Alison R. Yung
Alison R. Yung Deakin University
Soraya Seedat
Soraya Seedat Stellenbosch University

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