Body Image and Body Schema

Interdisciplinary perspectives on the body

Editors

Helena De Preester

| Ghent University

Veroniek Knockaert

| Ghent University

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ISBN 9781588116390 (USA) | USD 173.00

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The body, as the common ground for objectivity and (inter)subjectivity, is a phenomenon with a perplexing plurality of registers. Therefore, this innovative volume offers an interdisciplinary approach from the fields of neuroscience, phenomenology and psychoanalysis. The concepts of body image and body schema have a firm tradition in each of these disciplines and make up the conceptual anchors of this volume.

Challenged by neuropathological phenomena, neuroscience has dealt with body image and body schema since the beginning of the twentieth century. Halfway through the twentieth century, phenomenology was inspired by child development and elaborated a specifically phenomenological account of body image and schema. Starting from the mirror stage, this source of inspiration is shared with psychoanalysis which develops the concept of body image in interaction with the clinic of the singular subject. In this volume, the creative encounter of these three perspectives on the body opens up present-day paths for conceptualisation, research and (clinical) practice. (Series B)

[Advances in Consciousness Research, 62] 2005. x, 346 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/aicr.62

Table of Contents

Introduction Helena De Preester and Veroniek Knockaert	1–18
Part 1: Embodiment, Speech and Mirror Neurons
Body schema, body image, and mirror neurons Maxim I. Stamenov	21–43
Two phenomenological logics and the mirror neurons theory Helena De Preester	45–64
Some comments on the emotional and motor dynamics of language embodiment: A neurophysiological understanding of the Freudian Unconscious Ariane Bazan and David Van Bunder	65–85
Part 2: Dissociations of body image and body schema and ways of embodiment
Vectorial versus configural encoding of body space: A neural basis for a distinction between Body Schema and Body Image Jacques Paillard	89–109
Implicit body representations in action Yves Rossetti, Gilles Rode, Alessandro Farnè and Anne Rossetti	111–125
Body self and its narrative representation in schizophrenia: Does the body schema concept help establish a core deficit? Aaron L. Mishara	127–152
Body structure in psychotic and autistic children François Sauvagnat	153–171
Radical embodiment: Experimenting risks Nathalie Depraz	173–186
Part 3: Dynamic interpretations of body image and body schema
A functional neurodynamics for the constitution of the own body Jean-Luc Petit	189–209
What are we naming? Maxine Sheets-Johnstone	211–231
Dynamic models of body schematic processes Shaun Gallagher	233–250
Part 4: Clinical approaches and the mirror stage
Phenomenology and psychoanalysis on the mirror stage: Different metaphysical backgrounds on body image and body schema David Van Bunder and Gertrudis Van de Vijver	253–271
Looking at the mirror image: The stare and the glance Guy Le Gaufey	273–281
Anorectics and the mirror Veroniek Knockaert and Katrien Steenhoudt	283–297
Françoise Dolto’s clinical conception of the unconscious body image and the body schema Filip Geerardyn and Peter Walleghem	299–310
On the relation of the body image to sensation and its absence Jonathan Cole	311–327
Index	329–343

“The editors' explicit aims "to stimulate, to clarify and perhaps also to confuse", and by each of these standards have achieved considerable success, in roughly equal measure.”

Richard de Blacquière-Clarkson, on Metapsychology Online, Vol. 10, nr. 47

Subjects

Consciousness Research

Consciousness research

Psychology

Neuropsychology

BIC Subject: JMT – States of consciousness

BISAC Subject: PSY020000 – PSYCHOLOGY / Neuropsychology

U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 2005045992

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