Heautoscopy

Heautoscopy

Heautoscopy is a term used in psychiatry for the reduplicative hallucination of "seeing one's own body at a distance" cite journal | author=Damas Mora JMR, Jenner FA, Eacott SE | title=On heautoscopy or the phenomenon of the double: Case presentation and review of the literature| journal=Br J Med Psychol | year=1980 | volume=53 | pages= 75–83] . It can occur as a symptom in schizophrenia [cite journal |url=http://www.susanblackmore.co.uk/Articles/JNMD86.htm | author=Blackmore S | title=Out-of-Body Experiences in Schizophrenia: A Questionnaire Survey| journal =Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease|year=1986|volume=174|pages=615–619 | doi=10.1097/00005053-198610000-00006] and epilepsy.

Heautoscopy probably forms the basis for doppelgänger phenomenae.

See also

Autoscopy

References


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  • polyopic heautoscopy —    The term polyopic heautoscopy comes from the Greek words polus (much, many), opsis (seeing), heautou ( of oneself ), and skopeô (I am looking at). It translates loosely as seeing [something of] oneself in multiple images . The term is used to… …   Dictionary of Hallucinations

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  • inner heautoscopy —    see internal autoscopy …   Dictionary of Hallucinations

  • internal heautoscopy —    see internal autoscopy …   Dictionary of Hallucinations

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  • Autoscopy — This article excludes paranormal interpretations. Autoscopy is defined as an experience in which a person while believing to be awake sees her/his body and the world from a location outside her/his physical body. More precisely, autoscopy… …   Wikipedia

  • autoscopic phenomenon —    Also known as phantom double. The expression autoscopic phenomenon comes from the Greek words autos (self) and skopeo (I am looking at). It translates roughly as a phenomenon that involves the seeing of oneself . The group of autoscopic… …   Dictionary of Hallucinations

  • deuteroscopic hallucination —    The term deuteroscopic hallucination is indebted to the Greek words deuteros (second) and skopeo (I am looking at). In 19th century medicine it was used as a synonym for *autoscopic hallucination. The French physician and psychologist Paul… …   Dictionary of Hallucinations

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