A state of mind in which a person becomes completely aware of their own thoughts and perceptions, or a psychiatric condition of self-directed mental fixation.
From auto- (self) + catalepsy (from Greek katalēpsis, seizure or grasp). Refers to a psychological state where the mind 'grasps' or becomes intensely aware of itself.
This rare psychiatric term captures something philosophers have struggled with for millennia—the strange loop of your mind thinking about itself thinking about itself!
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