Abstract

Living with ongoing psychotic experiences requires a constant reflective alignment between the parallel psychotic reality and the socially shared reality. A fine-grained phenomenological analysis of this manner of living describes the required amount of reflective activity in combination with a loss of certain common-sensical habitualities, the often missing option to communicate one‘s experiences and the necessity to reframe the metaphysical insights as world-view, besides the psychotic experiences themselves, as major pitfalls and challenges of ongoing psychotic experiences. In this sense, persons with ongoing psychotic experiences are just like everybody else persons in an adventurous pursuit of their happiness, social responsibility and personal authenticity.