ArticleFrontiers in psychology2020
Pain Asymbolia as Depersonalization for Pain Experience. An Interoceptive Active Inference Account.
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- A Manifesto in Defense of Pain Complexity: A Critical Review of Essential Insights in Pain Neuroscience.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Review
- How childhood maltreatment alters perception and cognition - the predictive processing account of borderline personality disorder.Psychological medicine · 2022Review
- I overthink-Therefore I am not: An active inference account of altered sense of self and agency in depersonalisation disorder.Consciousness and cognition · 2022Article
- AI ethics in computational psychiatry: From the neuroscience of consciousness to the ethics of consciousness.Behavioural brain research · 2022Article
- Therapeutic Alliance as Active Inference: The Role of Therapeutic Touch and Biobehavioural Synchrony in Musculoskeletal Care.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2022Article
- A possible evolutionary function of phenomenal conscious experience of pain.Neuroscience of consciousness · 2021Article
- Interoception Disorder and Insular Cortex Abnormalities in Schizophrenia: A New Perspective Between Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Review
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Abstract
"Mineness," also called "subjective presence" or "personalization," is the feeling that experiences belong to a continuing self. This article argues that mineness is produced by processes of interoceptive active inference that model the self as the underlying cause of continuity and coherence in affective experience. A key component of this hierarchical processing system and hub of affective self-modeling is activity in the anterior insula cortex. I defend the account by applying it to the phenomenon of pain asymbolia, a condition in which nociceptive signals (of bodily damage) are not attributed to the self. Thus, pain asymbolia is a form of "depersonalization for pain" as Klein puts it. The pain is experienced as happening to
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