P Gaillard

[Cenesthopathies: a disorder of background emotions at the crossroads of the cognitive sciences and phenomenology].

L'Encephale October 2011 Jérôme Graux, Maël Lemoine, P Gaillard et al.

Cenesthesia and cenesthopathy have played a fundamental role in 19th and early 20th century French and German psychiatry. Cenesthesia refers to the internal, global, implicit and affective perception of one's own body. The concept of cenesthopathy was coined by Dupre and Camus in 1907 to describe a clinical entity characterized by abnormal and strange bodily sensations. In this review, we...