Body Disownership in Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

• Main Author: Ataria, Yochai (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Self.; Identity (Psychology).; Cognitive psychology.; Emotions.; Health psychology.; Self and Identity.; Cognitive Psychology.; Emotion.; Health Psychology.

This book explores the long-term outcomes of severe and ongoing trauma-particularly complex posttraumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD)-from phenomenological and cognitive perspectives. For example, C-PTSD can result in impairments at the body-schema level. In order to survive, trauma victims may conduct...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. The Twofold Structure of Human Beings
• 3. Ownership
• 4. When Ownership and Agency Collide: The Phenomenology of Limb-Disownership
• 5. The Complex Relations between SA and SBO during Trauma and the Development of Body-Disownership
• 6. Self-injuring Behavior
• 7. The Destructive Nature of Complex PTSD
• 8. Body Disownership: Concluding Remarks.