Abstract
Commentary on: "The body social: an enactive approach to the self". A tool for merging bodily and social self in immobile individuals.
Highlights
The article by Miriam Kyselo titled “The body social: an enactive approach to the self ” (Kyselo, 2014) raises a crucial issue and discusses how bodily and social aspects may merge together in a unique account of the human self
The integration process between bodily and social self may fail in patients with a number of neurological and psychiatric diseases, as well as during certain experimental conditions (Lucci and Pazzaglia, 2015)
The illusory alterations of awareness of the bodily self can be induced experimentally during the so-called “rubber hand illusion”—RHI (Botvinick and Cohen, 1998), where the subjective perceptual experience interfere with bodily self and the external bodily-shaped object is treated as part of the body
Summary
The article by Miriam Kyselo titled “The body social: an enactive approach to the self ” (Kyselo, 2014) raises a crucial issue and discusses how bodily and social aspects may merge together in a unique account of the human self. The integration process between bodily and social self may fail in patients with a number of neurological and psychiatric diseases, as well as during certain experimental conditions (Lucci and Pazzaglia, 2015).
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