Cenesthopathy (from french: cénestopathie, formed from the

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κοινός () "common", αἴσθησῐς () "feeling", "perception" + πᾰ́θος () "feeling, suffering, condition"), also known as coenesthesiopathy, is a rare psychiatric term used to refer to the feeling of being

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and this feeling is not localized to one region of the

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. Most notably, cenesthopathies are characterized by aberrant and strange bodily sensations (for example, a feeling of wires or coils being present within the oral region; tightening, burning, pressure, tickling etc. occurring in various parts of the body, and so on).

Classification of cenesthopathies

Cenesthopathic schizophrenia

The established occurrence of coenesthetic

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s in 18% of individuals with a psychiatric diagnosis of

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has led to the formulation of a separate subgroup of schizophrenia in the ICD-10, called cenesthopathic schizophrenia. ''Cenesthopathic schizophrenia'' is included (but not defined) within the category "other schizophrenia" () in the 10th revision of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems.

History

Cenesthopathy (originally french: cénestopathie) is a term created in 1907 by the French neuro-psychiatrists Ernest Ferdinand Pierre Louis Dupré and Paul Camus.

References

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