Pathologies of Body, Self and Space - A Special Issue of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry

What happens when the physical body and the subjective sense of self part company? How do we explain phantom limbs and alien abduction? What are the cognitive, neurobiological mechanisms that support such phenomena? In this special issue of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry Spence and Halligan explore all these issues and more, with contributions drawn from an internationally renowned panel of authors. While some constrain the space of the body (as in neglect and dissociation syndromes), others seem to extend its boundaries (as with phantom limbs and autoscopy). Still others suggest a permeability of those boundaries (as in alien control and thought insertion, each occurring in schizophrenia). Finally, the body may itself be perceived as having passed into space (the most extreme exemplar being 'alien abduction').

List of contents

S. Spence, P.W. Halligan, Editorial: Pathologies of Body, Self and Space. K.J. Holden, C.C. French, Alien Abduction Experiences: Some Clues from Neuropsychology and Neuropsychiatry. P. Brugger, Reflective Mirrors: Perspective-Taking in Autoscopic Phenomena. M. Husain, The Cognitive Neuroscience of Hemispatial Neglect. S. Spence, Alien Motor Phenomena: A Window onto Agency. R. Brown, The Cognitive Psychology of Dissociative States. T. Thornton, Thought Insertion: A Symptom too Far for Cognitivism? P.W. Halligan, Phantom Limbs: The Body in Mind.

Summary

In this special issue of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, Spence and Halligan explore syndromes which arise with the dissociation of body and self, with contributions drawn from an internationally renowned panel of authors.

Product details

• Assisted by: Peter W Halligan (Editor), Peter W. Halligan (Editor), Sean Spence (Editor), Sean (University of Sheffield) Spence (Editor), Sean A (University of Sheffield) Spence (Editor), Sean A. Spence (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2022
• EAN: 9781841699332
• ISBN: 978-1-84169-933-2
• No. of pages: 116
• Weight: 363 g
• Series: Special Issues of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry; Special Issues of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Neurologie und klinische Neurophysiologie, Klinische und Innere Medizin