Body Disownership in Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, 1st ed. 2018

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 their lives at the body-image level, thus producing a mismatch between body schema and body image. In turn, as in the case of somatoparaphrenia and body integrity identity disorder, this incongruity can result in body disownership, which will affect long-term outcomes of severe and ongoing trauma.

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.

Yochai Ataria is Senior Lecturer at Tel-Hai College and Researcher at The Open University of Israel.

Develops the concept of disownership toward the entire body from phenomenological and cognitive perspectives Has an interdisciplinary appeal to scholars in phenomenology, cognition, psychology, psychiatry, cultural studies, trauma studies, and philosophy Includes an innovative and expansive focus on the phenomenon of disownership as it applies to the whole body, not just particular limbs