Interoception and Mental Health: A Roadmap

Interoception and Mental Health: A Roadmap is a work by Sahib S. Khalsa (2018).

Core claims

• Khalsa and colleagues provide the first comprehensive roadmap for interoceptive research in mental health, arguing that disrupted interoception — the body’s capacity to sense its own internal states — is a transdiagnostic mechanism underlying anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addiction, somatic symptom disorders, and dissociative conditions.
• The paper distinguishes between interoceptive accuracy (objective ability to detect internal signals), interoceptive sensibility (subjective confidence in one’s interoceptive abilities), and interoceptive awareness (metacognitive understanding of one’s interoceptive processing), establishing that these dimensions can dissociate and produce distinct clinical presentations.
• By positioning interoception as a transdiagnostic mechanism, the paper provides the theoretical foundation for a paradigm shift in clinical practice: from treating discrete diagnostic categories to addressing the common embodied substrate that generates them.

Related questions

• Does the transdiagnostic interoceptive model support the depth psychological claim that diagnostic categories are surface expressions of deeper structural disturbances — that anxiety, depression, and addiction are symptoms of the same underlying disconnection from embodied selfhood?
• How does the distinction between interoceptive accuracy, sensibility, and awareness map onto Jung’s differentiation of the sensation function — could an individual with high interoceptive accuracy but low interoceptive awareness be understood as having an undifferentiated inferior sensation function?

See also

• Library page: /library/the-body/khalsa-interoception-mental-health-roadmap/

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