| Description |
1 online resource (251 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Table of Contents; Part I -- Introduction; 1 -- The Body's Psychology and Psychology's Body; Part II -- Social and Psychological Bodies; 2 -- Displays and Fragments; 3 -- Establishing Embodiment in Psychology; 4 -- Mind as Body Moving in Space: Bringing the Body Back into Self-Psychology; Part III -- Sexed and Gendered Bodies; 5 -- 'Loving the Computer': Cognition, Embodiment and the Influencing Machine; 6 -- Feminism, Psychology and Matters of the Body; 7 -- Situated Knowledges of Personal Embodiment; 8 -- Habitus: From the Inside Out and the Outside In; Part IV -- Sick and Healing Bodies |
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9 -- The Body as a Selfing Device: The Case of Anorexia Nervosa10 -- The Psychology and Management of Pain: Gate Control as Theory and Symbol; 11 -- From Dysappearance to Hyperappearance: Sliding Boundaries of Illness and Bodies; Index |
| Summary |
The body has come to provide a central site for theory and debate from social theory to cultural studies. This important and compelling book looks beyond psychology's traditional biological body to explore what insights can be gained from recent theories of embodiment. Taking the body as inscribed by social and disciplinary practices, leading contributors explore a wide range of psychological topics in new and challenging ways. Questions surrounding health, gender, history and culture are addressed in contexts such as the psychology of pain, the treatment of anorexia nervosa, and psychology's |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Psychophysiology.
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Psychophysiology
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Psychophysiology
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
98060208 |
| ISBN |
9780857026200 |
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0857026208 |
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1446279170 |
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9781446279175 |
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1446237729 |
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9781446237724 |
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1282623028 |
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9781282623026 |
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9786612623028 |
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6612623020 |
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