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#579 Valerie Hardcastle: The Self, Consciousness, Pain, and Abnormal Psychology

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Can We Learn More About the Self Through Psychiatry?

Can we learn more about the self and how people construct theirselves by studying psy psychiatric conditions like scisofrini? There are some disorders that really seem to impinge on a sense of self. And there i think you can learn a little bit, although it's not clear exactly how that tells you what the self is. I actually think taking a developmental perspective and watching how children grow into a fully fledged self is probably a better way to understand nature.

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