This paper outlines several of the challenges that are inherent in any attempt to communicate subjective experience to others, particularly in the context of a clinical interview. It presents the phenomenological interview as a way of effectively responding to these challenges, which may be especially important when attempting to understand the profound experiential transformations that take place in schizophrenia. Features of language experience in schizophrenia—including changes in interpersonal orientation, a sense of the arbitrariness of language, and a desire for faithful communication of experience (including of ineffable transformations of experience)—are described, together with discussion of their relevance for the interview context. Furthermore, the interview presents a unique context in which both intersubjective and interpersonal aspects of experience will be described as well as evoked. It is proposed that phenomenological interviewers should not only be familiar with these and other experiences that can occur in schizophrenia, but also capable of applying the techniques of phenomenological and hermeneutic methods in order to understand the descriptions of interviewees with sensitivity and accuracy.

本文概述了在尝试将主观经验与他人进行交流的任何尝试中固有的一些挑战，尤其是在临床访谈的背景下。它提出了现象学访谈法，作为有效应对这些挑战的一种方式，这在尝试了解精神分裂症发生的深刻的经验转变时尤其重要。描述了精神分裂症患者的语言体验的特征，包括人际关系的变化，语言的任意性以及对忠实的经验交流（包括无法转化的经验转化）的渴望，并讨论了它们与面试的相关性语境。此外，访谈提出了一个独特的背景，在该背景下，体验的主体间和人际关系都将被描述和唤起。建议现象学访问者不仅应该熟悉精神分裂症中可能发生的这些和其他经历，而且应该能够运用现象学和解释学的方法，以便以敏锐和准确的方式理解被访者的描述。