ABSTRACT
The perspective on psychosis draws on two main sources. First, the overlap between psychotic and spiritual experience, and second, comes from considering the accounts that was heard from people with this diagnosis from the inside. The emotional quality of the experience was clearly a key feature and was the aspect that could be relied upon. Thought insertion, hearing the TV talk about oneself or broadcast one's thoughts, telepathy and many other commonly reported experiences all had in common the loss of the sense of a boundary around the mind, around the self. The core mystical experience of unity with the divinity or the universe could also be understood in this way. Relationship, which is the province of the Emotional/Implicational, features in a total form of fusion and loss of boundary, while actually navigating the intricacies of real human relationships requires a lot of Propositional finesse and so goes by the board in such states.
