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Autonoesis and dissociative identity disorder

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2018

John Morton
John Morton*
Affiliation:
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College, London WC1N 3AR, England. j.morton@ucl.ac.uk https://johnmorton.co.uk/
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Abstract

Dissociative identity disorder is characterised by the presence in one individual of two or more alternative personality states (alters). For such individuals, the memory representation of a particular event can have full episodic, autonoetic status for one alter, while having the status of knowledge or even being inaccessible to a second alter. This phenomenon appears to create difficulties for a purely representational theory and is presented to Mahr & Csibra (M&C) for their consideration.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 41 , 2018 , e23
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2018 

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