Body Sensations

Ferenc Köteles is professor of psychology and the head of the Ádám György Psychophysiology Lab at the Institute of Health Promotion and Sport Sciences, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary.He is primarily interested in  the complex relationship between physiological and psychological processes. His research focuses on the placebo and nocebo phenomenon, various aspects of interoception, and the effects of mind-body interventions.

• Foreword.- Preface.- Introduction.- Chapter 1. How did it start? An evolutionary approach to consciousness.- Chapter 2. From the body to the brain: The biological background.- Chapter 3. What can we sense? Individual differences in interoceptive accuracy.- Chapter 4. What do we perceive? Individual differences in interoceptive sensitivity.- Chapter 5. Can we trust our feelings? The discrepancy between actual and perceived events.- Chapter 6. Putting everything together – Integrated models and pathological aspects of internal perception.- Chapter 7. Interoception and emotions.- Chapter 8. Negative consequences of what we don't feel or mistakenly feel.- Chapter 9. Positive consequences what we feel, accurately or mistakenly.- Epilogue.