Body Self-Awareness: Multiple Levels or Dynamical Gestalt?
Abstract
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.
Publication Title
Levels of Analysis in Psychopathology Cross Disciplinary Perspectives
Recommended Citation
Gallagher, S. (2020). Body Self-Awareness: Multiple Levels or Dynamical Gestalt?. Levels of Analysis in Psychopathology Cross Disciplinary Perspectives, 131-159. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108750349.013
