Narrative Disorders in Utterances of a Person with Paranoid Schizophrenia. A Case Study

Abstract

This article presents analyses of narrative utterances of a person with paranoid schizophrenia. The collected texts were analyzed using two methodologies for the study of narrative in logopedics. The first method was called the method of the line and field of narrative, developed by B. Bokus, and the other is the neural-network theory of narrative (NTN) authored by T. Woźniak. The author of the study used the former methodology to analyze narrative utterances based on four picture stories of different complexity. The latter methodology was used to analyze and interpret the narrative, recollective utterance referring to the childhood of the subject. The comparison of the results shows the main difficulties in building the text and phenomena typical of schizophrenia occurring in the (female) patient’s utterances.