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Depersonalisation and Self Perception

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 October 2018

Clive S. Mellor
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This paper describes the phenomenology of depersonalisation and focuses upon the relationship between depersonalisation, self-perception and body image. In discussing this relationship, the influence of certain phenomenological philosophers will be considered. Theoretical discussion of depersonalisation will be limited to those theories that are relevant to the purpose of this paper. Comprehensive reviews of the wide range of theories held to explain depersonalisation have been provided by Sedman (1970) and Oberst (1983).

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 153 , Issue S2: The Psychopathology of Body Image , 1988 , pp. 15 - 19
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Copyright © 1988 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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