Embodiment and schizophrenia

2009183 citationsJournal Articlegreen Open Access

Authors

Giovanni Stanghellini · Wisconsin Parkinson Association

Abstract

The essential feature of schizophrenic existence is its being disembodied. This is the feature that unifies the varied dimensions of that existence. The disembodiment of the self, of the self-object relation and of interpersonal relationships all lead to a kind of world in which the schizophrenic person lives and behaves like a soulless body or a disembodied spirit.

Topics & Keywords

Mental Health and Psychiatry Embodied and Extended Cognition Action Observation and Synchronization

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Reduced inequalities

Publication Details

Published in: World Psychiatry

Volume 8, Issue 1, pp. 56-59

DOI: 10.1002/j.2051-5545.2009.tb00212.x

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