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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, most of whom contributed to a symposium held in
Sheffield, England in June 2001 ('The Neuropsychiatry of the Body
in Space'). That meeting was primarily concerned with those bizarre
and disturbing syndromes that arise when 'body' and 'self', soma
and psyche are dissociated from each other, within or beyond the
body's surface. Some disorders constrain the space of the body (as
in neglect and dissociation syndromes), others seem to extend the
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'. Each paper contains a
description of disturbed phenomenology and an account and critique
of current cognitive neuropsychiatric findings.
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