Heautoscopy

Heautoscopy

This term was coined to denote seeing oneself, encountering ones alter ego or doppelgänger. Hence unlike the situation in autoscopy, there are two selves, a reduplicated body rather than a mirror image; egocentric and body-centered perspectives do not coincide.

 

References

Brugger P. Reflective mirrors: perspective taking in autoscopic phenomena. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry 2002; 7: 179-194

 

Cross References

Autoscopy; Hallucination

 

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