Table 2.
Patient Statements Exhibiting Ichstörung (From Spitzer47)
| “I feel that it is not I who is thinking.” |
| “My thoughts are not thought by me. They are thought by someone else.” |
| “This (thing, event) directly refers to me.” |
| “My thoughts can influence (things, events). This (event) happens because I think it.” |
| “To keep the world going, I must not stop thinking/breathing, otherwise it would cease to exist.” |
| “My experience has changed somehow. It is not real somehow such as I myself am somehow not real.” |
| “Things do not feel real. There is something between me and the things and persons around me, something like a wall of glass between me and everything else.” |
| “Time has disappeared. Not that is longer or shorter, it’s just not there; you could say there are bits of time, small pieces, shaken and mingled, or you could say there is no time at all.” |