text: In this article, we started with formal accounts of brain pro- 
  cessing based on active inference to discuss the mechanisms and 
  functional purpose of the (apparently) maladaptive ways to “con- 
  trol the body” that arise in these and other psychopathological 
  behaviors. We first discussed how we build models of the world, 
  of our bodily and interoceptive processes, of our emotions, and 
  of the embodied self, which provides a sense of understanding of 
  reality and affords adaptive control at many levels, from the allo- 
  static regulation of our physiological states to the achievement of 
  our individual and social goals. Then, we discussed under which 
  conditions we can become highly uncertain about our current 
  state and the future course of action. These conditions include 
  both contextual factors (e.g. periods of noteworthy changes or 
  stress) and factors related to the person’s internal models (e.g. 
  poor models in which precision parameters are incorrectly set). 
  Second, in this paper, we have mainly focused on uncertainty 
  reduction, but as we reviewed earlier, there are other alterna- 
  tive (or complementary) perspectives on the genesis of NSSI that 
  considers elements such as affective regulation. In addition to 
  the studies discussed earlier, other insights into the pathologi- 
  cal mechanisms that might underlie NSSI come from the anal- 
  ysis of clinical populations. For example, dysregulations of the 