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• somaesthetic hallucination —    Also written as somesthetic hallucination. Both terms are indebted to the Greek words soma (body), and aisthanesthai (to notice, to perceive). They are used to denote a hallucination which is experienced in any or several of the somatosensory… …   Dictionary of Hallucinations

• somaesthetic aura —    Also written as somesthetic aura. Both terms are indebted to the Greek words soma (body), aisthanesthai (to notice, to perceive), and aura (wind, smell). They are used as synonyms for the term * somatosensory aura.    References    Podoll, K …   Dictionary of Hallucinations

• somaesthetic doppelgänger —    see sensed presence …   Dictionary of Hallucinations

• somaesthetic phantom double —    see sensed presence …   Dictionary of Hallucinations

• perseverative somaesthetic sensation —    see tactile polyaesthesia …   Dictionary of Hallucinations

• Leibhafte Bewusstheit —    A German term that translates as vivid physical awareness or concrete awareness . The term leibhafte Bewusstheit was used by the German psychiatrist and philosopher Karl Jaspers (1883 1969) to denote what is generally known as sensed presence …   Dictionary of Hallucinations

• sensed presence —    Also known as sense of presence, feeling ofa presence (FOP), idea of a presence, hallucination of presence, false proximate awareness, false bodily awareness, intruder hallucination, somaesthetic phantom double, somaesthetic doppelgänger,… …   Dictionary of Hallucinations

• vivid physical awareness —    The expression vivid physical awareness is a translation of the German term leibhafte Bewusstheit. The latter term was used by the German psychiatrist and philosopher Karl Jaspers (1883 1969) to denote what is generally known as * sensed… …   Dictionary of Hallucinations

• Glossary of psychiatry — In this glossary of psychiatric terms, mostly Greek, secondly French and German and some English terms, as used in psychiatric literature, were defined. We have included many other terms with the passage of time and aim to broaden this article to …   Wikipedia

• Richard Shusterman — is an American pragmatist philosopher, currently the Dorothy F. Schmidt Eminent Scholar in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy at Florida Atlantic University. He is internationally known for his contributions to philosophical… …   Wikipedia