Postawy osób chorych na schizofrenie wobec własnej choroby

Abstract

The intention of the following article is to present the results of the theoretical analysis and empirical research conducted on the nature of the schizophrenia phenomenon. The considerations are an attempt at joining in the discussion on the experience of schizophrenia. They are concentrated on description of schizophrenia from the subjective perspective of people with schizophrenia. ln this way, the empirical research presented refers to phenomenological and existential model of analysis, which is systematised by means of concept of attitude. As a result it shows particular characteristics of three ingredients: cognitive, emotional and behavioral, of attitudes of people suffering from schizophrenia towards their experience of disease. It seems that they can be both - incoherent and self- contradictory and also relatively compact.