Body image and body schema : interdisciplinary perspectives on the body /

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Imprint:Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, c2005.
Description:ix, 343 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Series:Advances in consciousness research, 1381-589X ; v. 62
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5714615
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Other authors / contributors:Preester, Helena de
Knockaert, Veroniek.
ISBN:1588116395 (hb)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of Contents:
  • -1. Prelim pages
  • 0. Table of contents
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Part 1: Embodiment, Speech and Mirror Neurons
  • 3. Body schema, body image, and mirror neurons
  • 4. Two phenomenological logics and the mirror neurons theory
  • 5. Some comments on the emotional and motor dynamics of language embodiment
  • 6. Part 2: Dissociations of body image and body schema and ways of embodiment
  • 7. Vectorial versus configural encoding of body space
  • 8. Implicit body representations in action
  • 9. Body self and its narrative representation in schizophrenia
  • 10. Body structure in psychotic and autistic children
  • 11. Radical embodiment
  • 12. Part 3: Dynamic interpretations of body image and body schema
  • 13. A\functional neurodynamics for the constitution of the own body
  • 14. What are we naming?
  • 15. Dynamic models of body schematic processes
  • 16. Part 4: Clinical approaches and the mirror stage
  • 17. Phenomenology and psychoanalysis on the mirror stage
  • 18. Looking at the mirror image
  • 19. Anorectics and the mirror
  • 20. Françoise Dolto's clinical conception of the unconscious body image and the body schema
  • 21. On the relation of the body image to sensation and its absence
  • 22. Index