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II. Body Perception in Depersonalizationo

DANIEL CAPPON, MB, FRCP, DPM; ROBIN BANKS, PhD

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1965;13(4):375-379.

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Introduction

THE phenomenon of depersonalization (DP) herein defined as the spontaneous complaint of a psychiatric patient of a distortion in perception of his body has received considerable clinical^1-4 and speculative attention,^5,6 but experimental information concerning it is very limited. The main work on distortions of body perception in psychiatric patients has been carried out, not on DP states, but on schizophrenic states and has been concerned with the accuracy of body perception of patients in such states. Cleveland⁷ and Cleveland and Fisher et al⁸ have reported that schizophrenics underestimate the size of their body, especially hands and feet; and Reitman and Cleveland⁹ have reported that sensory deprivation enhances differences between schizophrenics and controls in accuracy of body image representation. Dillon,¹⁰ on the other hand, using apparatus providing for the direct measurement of perception of body . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
TORONTO; WATERLOO, ONTARIO, CANADA

University of Toronto, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry (Dr. Cappon); University of Waterloo, Assistant Professor of Psychology (Dr. Banks).

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Nov 12, 1964.

This paper was prepared for the American Psychiatric Association's Meeting in Rio de Janerio, Brazil.

Reprint requests to University of Toronto, Department of Psychiatry, Toronto 5, Canada (Dr. Cappon).

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