Embodiment: Clinical, Critical and Cultural Perspectives on Health and IllnessMcGraw-Hill Education (UK), 16.09.2004 - 224 Seiten This is the first book to explore the idea of embodiment across a wide range of clinical contexts. Adopting a critical and cultural perspective, the book stresses the importance of understanding people through their lived experiences and constructions of their own body.The book:
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Inhalt
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Chapter 02 Sensing self | 25 |
Chapter 03 Somatic complaints | 48 |
Chapter 04 Body sculpturing | 84 |
Chapter 05 Illusory body experiences | 109 |
Chapter 06 Enabling technologies | 138 |
Chapter 07 Forms of embodiment | 170 |
References | 182 |
Index | 201 |
Back cover | 208 |
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Seite 84 - tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners ; so that if we will plant nettles, or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up thyme, supply it with one gender of herbs, or distract it with many, either to have it sterile with idleness, or manured with industry, why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills.
Seite 1 - The world experienced (otherwise called the 'field of consciousness') comes at all times with our body as its centre, centre of vision, centre of action, centre of interest. Where the body is is 'here'; when the body acts is 'now'; what the body touches is 'this'; all other things are 'there' and 'then
Seite 111 - Look ye, carpenter, I dare say thou callest thyself a right good workmanlike workman, eh! Well, then, will it speak thoroughly well for thy work, if, when I come to mount this leg thou makest, I shall nevertheless feel another leg in the same identical place with it; that is, carpenter, my old lost leg; the flesh and blood one, I mean. Canst thou not drive that old Adam away?
Seite 111 - But, that gentlemen from unfortunate and ill-starred Ireland, who have seen with their own eyes, and heard with their own ears, the...
Seite 13 - The image of the human body means the picture of our own body which we form in our mind . . . the way in which the body appears to ourselves.
Seite 1 - here'; when the body acts is 'now'; what the body touches is 'this'; all other things are 'there' and 'then' and 'that.' These words of emphasized position imply a systematization of things with reference to a focus of action and interest which lies in the body; and the systematization is now so instinctive (was it ever not so ?) that no developed or active experience exists for us at all except in that ordered form. So far as -thoughts
Seite 95 - Disturbance in the way in which one's body weight or shape is experienced, undue influence of body weight or shape on self-evaluation, or denial of the seriousness of the current low body weight.
Seite 40 - No face was familiar to him, seen as a 'thou', being just identified as a set of features, an 'it'. Thus, there was formal, but no trace of personal, gnosis. And with this went his indifference, or blindness, to expression. A face, to us, is a person looking out — we see, as it were, the person through his persona, his face. But for Dr P. there was no persona in this sense — no outward persona, and no person within.
Seite 54 - A. A history of many physical complaints beginning before age 30 years that occur over a period of several years and result in treatment being sought or significant impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning. B. Each of the following criteria must have been met, with individual symptoms occurring at any time during the course of the disturbance...
Seite 1 - The body is the storm centre, the origin of co-ordinates, the constant place of stress in all that experience-train. Everything circles round it, and is felt from its point of view. The word 'I,' then, is primarily a noun of position, just like 'this