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Academia Mexicana de Neurología, A.C.

2018, Number 5

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Rev Mex Neuroci 2018; 19 (5)

Corporal expropriation: self-perception in people with permanent injuries, sexual violence or chronic torture

Salín-Pascual RJ

Language: Spanish
References: 52
Page: 37-46
PDF size: 154.99 Kb.


ABSTRACT

Chronic physical pain due to illness or torture, results in the loss of control over the body in general and some functions in particular in human beings who experience them. There is a reciprocal relationship between owning a body and being the agent of movement and actions of that body. This in neurophilosophy is called “sense of agency.” In situations of moderate stress the body can lose control of visceral functions, but still perceives the body as its own. If the stress is intense, prolonged and hopeless, the body stops feeling like its own, it becomes the enemy, and this is known as disembodiment. The transcraneal magnetic stimulation of the right parietal, occipital and temporal association cortex produces the descorporization phenomena, in which the person perceives the phenomenon of not to recognize their body as the agency of movement and sensation. This same phenomenon occurs in people under chronic torture, prolonged sexual violence, and chronic painful diseases. These types of pain collapse the cognitive systems of the first person and generate the phenomenon known as “Sensation of corporal desapropiation”.


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