Embodiment : clinical, critical and cultural perspectives / Malcolm MacLachlan.

By:

MacLachlan, Malcolm

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Maidenhead : Open University Press, 2004Description: xv, 207 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:

0335209602 (hbk.) :
0335209599 (pbk.) :

Other title:

Clinical, critical and cultural perspectives

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

306.461 22

Contents:

1. Body plasticity -- 2. Sensing self -- 3. Somatic complaints -- 4. Body sculpturing -- 5. Illusory body experiences -- 6. Enabling technologies -- 7. Forms of embodiment.

Review: "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, in addition to explaining, people's often distressing experiences of their bodies." "From anorexia to amputation, Botox to body dysmorphic disorder, phantom limbs to acute and chronic pain, the book considers a broad range of bodily experiences." "Drawing on research from diverse areas, including health and clinical psychology, neuroscience, medicine, nursing, anthropology, philosophy and sociology, this book is essential reading for students across all these disciplines."--BOOK JACKET.

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1. Body plasticity -- 2. Sensing self -- 3. Somatic complaints -- 4. Body sculpturing -- 5. Illusory body experiences -- 6. Enabling technologies -- 7. Forms of embodiment.

"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, in addition to explaining, people's often distressing experiences of their bodies." "From anorexia to amputation, Botox to body dysmorphic disorder, phantom limbs to acute and chronic pain, the book considers a broad range of bodily experiences." "Drawing on research from diverse areas, including health and clinical psychology, neuroscience, medicine, nursing, anthropology, philosophy and sociology, this book is essential reading for students across all these disciplines."--BOOK JACKET.

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