A term introduced in or shortly before 1963 by the British neurologist Macdonald Critchley (1900-1997) as an alternative for the term *body schema illusion.
References
Critchley, M. (1965). Disorders of corporeal awareness in parietal disease.In: The body percept. Edited by Wapner, S., Werner, H. New York, NY: Random House.
Dictionary of Hallucinations. J.D. Blom. 2010.