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  • 11 - Body Self-Awareness: Multiple Levels or Dynamical Gestalt?

  • from Section 4
  • Edited by Kenneth S. Kendler, Virginia Commonwealth University, Josef Parnas, University of Copenhagen, Peter Zachar, Auburn University, Montgomery
  • Book:
    Levels of Analysis in Psychopathology
    Published online:
    02 April 2020
    Print publication:
    02 April 2020, pp 131-159

  • Summary

    This chapter reviews some central issues concerning body self-awareness, the sense of ownership, and how these phenomena are modulated in psychopathology. I argue that various aspects of body self-awareness can be organized in a relatively coherent manner by thinking of them in terms of dynamical gestalts. Taking this approach moves us away from thinking of these issues as involving multiple or different levels, or conceiving of them under hierarchical descriptions that refer to ‘top-down’ versus ‘bottom-up’ processes. Thinking of body self-awareness on the model of a dynamical gestalt allows us to see how different forms of pre-reflective and reflective self-awareness are related in a more holistic fashion.