Body Image and Body Schema
Interdisciplinary perspectives on the body
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. ix, 343 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 1 July 2008
Published online on 1 July 2008
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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IntroductionHelena De Preester and Veroniek Knockaert | pp. 1–18
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Part 1: Embodiment, Speech and Mirror Neurons
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Body schema, body image, and mirror neuronsMaxim I. Stamenov | pp. 21–43
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Two phenomenological logics and the mirror neurons theoryHelena De Preester | pp. 45–64
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Some comments on the emotional and motor dynamics of language embodiment: A neurophysiological understanding of the Freudian UnconsciousAriane Bazan and David Van Bunder | pp. 65–85
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Part 2: Dissociations of body image and body schema and ways of embodiment
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Vectorial versus configural encoding of body space: A neural basis for a distinction between Body Schema and Body ImageJacques Paillard | pp. 89–109
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Implicit body representations in actionYves Rossetti, Gilles Rode, Alessandro Farnè and Anne Rossetti | pp. 111–125
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Body self and its narrative representation in schizophrenia: Does the body schema concept help establish a core deficit?Aaron L. Mishara | pp. 127–152
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Body structure in psychotic and autistic childrenFrançois Sauvagnat | pp. 153–171
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Radical embodiment: Experimenting risksNathalie Depraz | pp. 173–186
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Part 3: Dynamic interpretations of body image and body schema
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A functional neurodynamics for the constitution of the own bodyJean-Luc Petit | pp. 189–209
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What are we naming?Maxine Sheets-Johnstone | pp. 211–231
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Dynamic models of body schematic processesShaun Gallagher | pp. 233–250
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Part 4: Clinical approaches and the mirror stage
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Phenomenology and psychoanalysis on the mirror stage: Different metaphysical backgrounds on body image and body schemaDavid Van Bunder and Gertrudis Van de Vijver | pp. 253–271
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Looking at the mirror image: The stare and the glanceGuy Le Gaufey | pp. 273–281
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Anorectics and the mirrorVeroniek Knockaert and Katrien Steenhoudt | pp. 283–297
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Françoise Dolto’s clinical conception of the unconscious body image and the body schemaFilip Geerardyn and Peter Walleghem | pp. 299–310
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On the relation of the body image to sensation and its absenceJonathan Cole | pp. 311–327
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Index | pp. 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
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Subjects
Consciousness Research
Psychology
Main BIC Subject
JMT: States of consciousness
Main BISAC Subject
PSY020000: PSYCHOLOGY / Neuropsychology