Abstract In Cotard delusion, the subject believes that she has died or no longer exists. One explanation of the delusion proceeds from the fact that depersonalization is often reported as the experience of feeling ‘as if’ the subject no longer exists. In Cotard delusion, this depersonalization experience is coupled with a metacognitive deficit that leads the subject to endorse the experience or...
Abstract Users of psychedelic drugs often report that their sense of being a self or ‘I’ distinct from the rest of the world has diminished or altogether dissolved in a phenomenon known as ego dissolution (Nour et al., 2016). This is a case of transient disintegration of the self model caused by actions of serotonin 5HT2A agonists. Psychedelic experience provides a window on the nature of self...