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This chapter introduces this book’s main contention: Body-disownership is a destructive mechanism that can develop as a result of long-lasting and ongoing trauma. The long-term outcomes of this destructive mechanism constitute the very essence of complex posttraumatic symptoms.
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Throughout the book, quotations representing first-person subjective experiences are italicized. In these quotations, boldface font is used to emphasize particular segments.
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Ataria, Y. (2018). Introduction. In: Body Disownership in Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95366-0_1
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