“Ataria’s views on somatoparaphrenia and BIID are inspiring and allow a nuanced understanding of different types of alienation from the own bod” (Peter Brugger, Professor of Neurology, University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland)

“To be in this world through your own body is a blessing. By reading this book, you will find profound acknowledgment of this fact. As Ataria's arguments clearly show, during severe and ongoing trauma one's own body turns into a hostile being. What the author describes as body disownership is not the lack of a sense of body ownership, but rather the very experience of one's ‘own body’ becoming the enemy that totally rejects any sense of familiarity. Gaining an understanding of this will make you aware how blessed you are to be here and now in the world and not to be suffering from C-PTSD.” (Shogo Tanaka, Professor of Psychology, Tokai University, Japan)

“Employing original scholarly language, Ataria takes readers on a compelling intellectual journey through the tortured experiences of survivors ofchronic traumatization. This outstanding volume is a must-read for scholars and clinicians who wish to deepen their understanding of the consequences of trauma.” (Eli Somer, Ph.D, Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Haifa, Israel)

“Ataria's book constitutes a significant contribution to the study of psychological trauma in the fields of phenomenology, neuroscience, and contemporary psychiatry. The author's observations of neurological impairments are skillfully interwoven with his observations of psychiatric impairments. Thus, Ataria develops a unified neuropsychiatric phenomenologically-inspired theory of the relationship between soma and trauma.” (Iftah Biran, M.D., Behavioral Neurologist, Psychiatrist, Psychotherapist, and Psychiatric Consultant to the Division of Neurology, Tel Aviv Medical Center, Israel)