Personality disorders
March 1, 2025
Annette Löffler, Dieter Kleinböhl, Dorothee Maria Gescher et al.
Dissociation describes a state of altered consciousness in which self-related functions are no longer integrated. In its extreme form, the self is perceived as detached from the physical body, resulting in so-called out-of-body experiences (OBEs). It has been previously proposed that altered bottom-up sensory integration contributes to this kind of dissociative self-experience, which is...
Journal of Trauma & Dissociation
March 1, 2020
A. Löffler, N. Kleindienst, S. Cackowski et al.
ABSTRACT Body ownership, i.e., the certainty that own body parts belongs to oneself, is a fundamental feature of self-consciousness. Patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) often show symptoms of dissociation, describing a state of detachment from reality including their own body. However, up to now, there is no study that a) quantifies body ownership experiences in BPD, b) compares...
Frontiers in Psychology
2020
Robin Bekrater-Bodmann, Ruben T Azevedo, Vivien Ainley et al.
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The perception of being located within one's body (i.e., bodily self-location) is an essential feature of everyday self-experience. However, by manipulating exteroceptive input, healthy participants can easily be induced to perceive themselves as being spatially dislocated from their physical bodies. It has previously been suggested that interoception, i.e., the processing of inner...
PLoS One
2015
Robin Bekrater-Bodmann, Michael Schredl, Martin Diers et al.
The experience of post-amputation pain such as phantom limb pain (PLP) and residual limb pain (RLP), is a common consequence of limb amputation, and its presence has negative effects on a person's well-being. The continuity hypothesis of dreams suggests that the presence of such aversive experiences in the waking state should be reflected in dream content, with the recalled body representation...