Embodying the Self: Neurophysiological Perspectives on the Psychopathology of Anomalous Bodily Experiences

• Main Author: Andrea Raballo (auth)
• Other Authors: Giovanni Stanghellini (auth), Vittorio Gallese (auth), Mariateresa Sestito (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2018
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Neurosciences; Phenomenology; Anorexia; Mirror neurons system; Self disorders; multisensory integration; Schizophrenia; embodiment; Psychopathology; anomalous bodily experiences; Neurophysiology
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Since the beginning of the 20th Century, phenomenology has developed a distinction between lived body (Leib) and physical body (Koerper), a distinction well known as body-subject vs. body-object (Hanna and Thompson 2007). The lived body is the body experienced from within - my own direct experience...