Embodied: The Psychology of Physical Sensation

by Christopher Eccleston and Christopher Eccleston

Book Overview

We grow up thinking there are five senses, but we forget about the ten neglected senses of the body that both enable and limit our experience. Embodied explores the psychology of physical sensation in ten chapters: balance, movement, pressure (acting in gravity), breathing, fatigue, pain, itch, temperature, appetite, and expulsion (the senses of physical matter leaving the body). For each sense, two people are interviewed who live with extreme experiences...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198727909
• ISBN13: 9780198727903
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"