Table of contents : Cover (Front) ......Page 1 Cover (Rear) ......Page 2 About The Author ......Page 3 Title Page ......Page 5 Copyright ......Page 6 Dedication ......Page 7 Contents ......Page 9 Preface to the Original Edition ......Page 11 Preface to the Pelican Edition ......Page 13 Acknowledgements ......Page 15 Citation ......Page 16 Part One ......Page 17 1. The existential-phenomenological foundations for a science of persons......Page 19 2. The existential-phenomenological foundations for the understanding of psychosis ......Page 29 3. Ontological insecurity ......Page 41 Part Two ......Page 65 4. The embodied and unembodied self ......Page 67 5. The inner self in the schizoid condition ......Page 80 6. The false-self system ......Page 96 7. Self-conciousness......Page 108 8. The case of Peter ......Page 122 Part Three ......Page 137 9. Psychotic developments ......Page 139 10. The self and the false self in a schizophrenic ......Page 162 11. The ghost of the weed garden: a study of a chronic schizophrenic ......Page 180 References ......Page 209 Index ......Page 213