Body Image and Body Schema: Interdisciplinary Perspective 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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1588116395
• ISBN13: 9781588116390
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Length: 356 Pages