Josef Parnas (born 1950) is a Danish psychiatrist. He is Professor of Psychiatry at the
University of Copenhagen
The University of Copenhagen (, KU) is a public university, public research university in Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. Founded in 1479, the University of Copenhagen is the second-oldest university in Scandinavia, after Uppsala University.
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, as well as a co-founder and senior researcher at the
Center for Subjectivity Research.
He worked on the creation of the ''
Examination of Anomalous Self-Experience
A self-disorder, also called ipseity disturbance, is a psychological phenomenon of disruption or diminishing of a person's minimal self ''–'' the fundamental sense that one's experiences are truly one's own. People with self-disorder feel tha ...
'' scale, which has played an important role in enabling empirical study of
self-disorders in
schizophrenia spectrum disorders
A spectrum disorder is a disorder that includes a range of linked conditions, sometimes also extending to include singular symptoms and traits. The different elements of a spectrum either have a similar appearance or are thought to be caused by th ...
.
References
External links
Faculty page*
1950 births
Living people
Danish psychiatrists
Academic staff of the University of Copenhagen
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Schizophrenia researchers