 The first reason is to account for disturbances in bodily awareness. Most of the literature on body representation can be found in patient studies (Head &amp; Holmes 1911; Lhermitte 1942; Cole &amp; Paillard 1995, Schwoebel &amp; Coslett 2005; Sirigu et al. 1991; Gadsby 2017). With the help of the notion of body representation, and thus of body misrepresentation, one can easily explain how the way the body is experienced can be at odds with the physical reality of the body. On the one hand, amputated patients can still feel the presence of their absent limb because the physically missing limb is still represented. On the other hand, patients with xenomelia can wish their perfectly healthy limbs to be amputated because these limbs are not incorporated in their body representation (Hilti &amp; Brugger 2010).