Jaspers' sense of presence in the light of Huber's basic symptoms and DSM-III.

Abstract The present paper focuses on the primary phenomenological features of Jaspers' sense of presence or the false proximate awareness (FPA) for purposes of setting up appropriate provisonal operational criteria. A case is also made for classifying the FPA experience among certain sensory/perceptual phenomena part of Huber's larger grouping of the basic symptoms (HBS), a concept currently enjoying great popularity in German research on schizophrenia. With the attention now paid to the FPA in DSM-III, it is hoped that this symptom's all too obvious neglect in the literature might finally come to an end.

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