[Coenesthesia. On the history of general sensibility]

The term "coenaesthesis" or "Gemeingefühl" (general sensibility), common until 1900, combined different psychological, neurological and psychopathological components of body experience in the borderland between soma and psyche. By and large however, it was replaced by specialized terms like "body scheme", "body image" or "body ego". This development may be pursued from Reil and the so-called romantic medicine up to Griesinger, Wernicke, Head and Schilder in our century; its profits and losses are demonstrated.