Fabio Gabrielli, Floriana Irtelli

Body Image and Eating Disorders

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"One should accept one's body as one's home, a living space designated for communication and relationships. We live in a highly complex time deeply marked by the digital revolution, an infosphere that has produced radical transformations,1 increasingly conspicuous acquisitions of cognitive neuroscience, and all related anthropological fallouts.2 Our time witnesses the hybridization of humans and machines, confronting us with the onerous problem of new forms and the effective consistency of post-human freedom"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 178
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 417g
• ISBN-13: 9781316514306
• ISBN-10: 1316514307
• Artikelnr.: 63396947

Autorenporträt

Dr. Fabio Gabrielli is a clinical practitioner and Professor of Philosophical Anthropology and Biochemistry at Ludes University of Lugano, Switzerland where he has previously served as Dean. Gabrielli has published over two hundred works including papers on 'Quantum Human and Animal Consciousness' (2011) and 'Considerations on Blood Platelets: A Neuron's Mirror for Mood Disorders?' (2012).

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Contemporary Perspectives in Anthropology, Philosophy, and
Psychology on the Human Body: An Introductory Overview: 1. The conception
of the human body: An evolutionary study from ancient times to the
hypermodern era; Part II. Brain Without Body, Body Without Brain, and
Contemporary Body Image Disorders: 2. Body schema, body image, and
hypermodern alterations; 3. Alexithymia and somatizations; 4. The myth of
the perfect body image, body dysmorphic disorder, and bigorexia; 5. The
complex relationship between the mind, the body, and the contemporary
environment; Part III. A Specific Analysis: The Hypermodern Contradictory
Relationship With Food: 6. Contemporary social trends regarding food:
paradoxes and food tribes; 7. Orthorexia; 8. Contemporary perspectives on
eating disorders; 9. Nervous bulimia and binge eating disorder: A
contemporary overview; 10. Contemporary on obesity; Part IV. Which Possible
Horizons? Some Final Considerations: 11. Body image, narcissims, and
depression; 12. The global process of psycho-bodily development.