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Narrate It Until You Become It

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Journal of the American Philosophical Association, Volume: 7, Issue: 4, Pages: 474 - 493

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Research in phenomenology and philosophy of psychiatry has suggested that psychopathological disturbances of experience often involve an alteration of one's ‘sense of possibility’, dependent upon the presence of specific ‘existential feelings’ (Ratcliffe 2012). In this paper I provide an extend...

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