The use of phenomenological reduction in psychiatry

The authors show with some simple training sketches the nature of the diffe rent stages of phenomenological reduction, These stages are useful for unde r-standing psychiatric experience. One may encompass this philosophical att itude by meeting persons with schizophrenia, This meeting is in itself a fo rm of the intersubjective reduction. It reveals the very essence of subject ivity, compared to a flash, and schizophrenia as its metamorphosis within t he living world.