I don't think it is a issue of 'identifying with their body' rather than a situation where the body and the self inform each other. The ancient temperamental m

I don't think it is a issue of 'identifying with their body' rather than a situation where the body and the self inform each other. The ancient temperamental model assumed that the human body is a mix of Choleric (fire), Sanguine (blood), Phlegmatic (phlegm), and Melancholy. These categories were also assumed to be temperamental architypes whereby (for example) an excess of blood leads to an angry (Choleric) personality. Of course this is bollocks, but nonetheless demonstrates my point. The idea that 'who we are' is something that is defined only by our brain is wrong. Brain/body traffic seems to be two-way: physical trauma to the body can impact the brain, the nervous system of the digestive tract can impact our moods, lack of vitamin D can negatively impact our emotional outlook, male infant circumcision can alter adult socio-affective processing etc etc.