The essential feature of schizophrenic existence is its being disembodied. This is the feature that unifies the varied dimensions of that existence. The disembodiment of the self, of the self-object relation and of interpersonal relationships all lead to a kind of world in which the schizophrenic person lives and behaves like a soulless body or a disembodied spirit.
Key words: Cenesthesia, intersubjectivity, lived body, schizophrenia, self-awareness.
(World Psychiatry 2009;8:56-59)