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Splitting in Schizophrenia: Controversies and Links Between Neuroscience and Psychodynamic Theory

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The term splitting is defined as a process of mental division of complex structures related to cognitive and affective conflicting experiences. Recent findings indicate that mental splitting in schizophrenia might be represented by disrupted organization of neural information transmission. This disturbed neural information processing likely may determine deficits in mental disorganization described in neuroscientific theories of disturbed connectivity, corollary discharges and dynamic complexity. In this context, a purpose of this article is to review basic neuroscience theories of schizophrenia that complementarily reflect mind-brain information connectivity. These underlying disruptions of neural integrity might represent neural correlates of the splitting in schizophrenia that provide novel descriptions of mind-brain relationships.

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Bob, P., Pec, O. Splitting in Schizophrenia: Controversies and Links Between Neuroscience and Psychodynamic Theory. Act Nerv Super 59, 106–123 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41470-017-0012-1

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