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Observing the Transformation of Bodily Self-consciousness in the Squeeze-machine Experiment
Published on: March 8, 2019
[To experience one's physicality through the "bizarre" experience of touching oneself]
1CHU Amiens Picardie, 1 rond-point du Professeur-Christian-Cabrol, 80054 Amiens, France; Université de Paris, Institut des sciences du sport-santé de Paris, 1 rue Lacretelle, 75015 Paris, France.
Abstract:
The touch of oneself is essential in the construction of a conscious self. It contributes to the feeling of ownership of the body. Feeling touched and touching reveals the subject in a being-self inscribed in its environment. This sensory experience can be disturbing for the subject. A study conducted with adolescent girls with obesity has shown that this haptic experience, during a postural session, can generate a feeling of strangeness. This singular discovery of oneself reveals the opening towards new exploratory fields of the body self-consciousness, during our care.
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