NCT01964456

"Self-consciousness and the Inter-subjective Body"

"Narcisse & Echo : Self-consciousness and the Inter-subjective Body"

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 39 (actual)
• Sponsor: Centre Hospitalier St Anne · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 35 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to demonstrate that bodily self-consciousness is subjectively and inter-subjectively constituted and that some dimensions of the bodily self-consciousness are impaired in Anorexia nervosa.

Detailed description

Anorexia nervosa is a severe psychiatric disorder, with high level of mortality. Anorexic patients often experience a serious disturbance in body and their own shape perception. We hypothesize that bodily self-consciousness is co-constituted by four subjective dimensions which are all inter-subjectively open: in encountering others, one's body is experienced as 1. objectified, 2. the bearer of inter-subjective feelings, 3. an inter-subjective agent and 4. the anchor of an inter-subjectively negotiated perspective. Across several experiments, we sought to determine which dimension of bodily self-consciousness is altered in Anorexia Nervosa compared to healthy subjects.

Conditions

• Anorexia Nervosa

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Joint perception task
BEHAVIORAL	Body Shape Questionnaire
OTHER	Measure of the heart rate

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-11-01
• Primary completion: 2014-04-01
• Completion: 2014-06-01
• First posted: 2013-10-17
• Last updated: 2015-03-02

Locations

1 site across 1 country: France