Paul Schilder

The Image and Appearance of the Human Body

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

First Published in 1999. First Published in 1999. This is the final volume of 10 from the international library of psychology, looking at physiological psychology and focuses on the image and appearance of the human body, Studies in the Constructive Energies of the Psyche. This book attempts to achieve a deeper insight into the nature of the creative process and emphasizes the constructive psychic effort by which new entities are created. Emergent evolution and gestalten in the psychic sphere are not merely data which are given to us as a present; they have to be obtained by struggling.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 362
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juni 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 587g
• ISBN-13: 9780415210812
• ISBN-10: 041521081X
• Artikelnr.: 71925796

Autorenporträt

Paul Schilder

Inhaltsangabe

INTRODUCTION
Part 1 THE PHYSIOLOGICAL BASIS OF THE BODY-IMAGE
Chapter 1 Postural and tactile impressions in relation to the body-image
Chapter 2 Localization on the skin and the optic Part of the body-image
Chapter 3 Further remarks on the apparatus which serves localization
Chapter 4 Imperception of impairment of somatic functions and of Part s of the body-image (body-image imperception)
Chapter 5 Alloaesthesia, non-perception, right and left, symaesthesia in the body-schema
Chapter 6 Some remarks about the relation of the body schema to tactile-kinaesthetic movements
Chapter 7 Agnosia concerning the body-image (autotopagnosia)
fingeragnosia
Chapter 8 Interrelations of the body-image
Chapter 9 Apraxia and agnosia in their relations to the schema of the body
Chapter 10 Remarks on human action
Chapter 11 Summary and recapitulation on apraxia and agnosia and the representations of movement
Chapter 12 Expressive and reflectory movements
Chapter 13 The phantom
Chapter 14 Psychogenic body-image imperception and allochiria. Their relation to organic changes
Chapter 15 Muscle tone and body-image. The persistence of tone
Chapter 16 The influence of habitual posture on the postural model
Chapter 17 The image of the face. Autoscopic experiments
Chapter 18 How we perceive the outer surface of our body
Chapter 19 The openings of the body
Chapter 20 The heavy mass of the body
Chapter 21 The vestibular influence on the perception of the weight of the body
Chapter 22 Pain
Chapter 23 Development of the body-image
Chapter 24 Two deceptions. The influence of the optic sphere on the body-image
Chapter 25 The body-image in clouded consciousness and the vestibular influence on the postural model of the body
Part 2 THE LIBIDINOUS STRUCTURE OF THE BODY-IMAGE
Chapter 26 Narcissism and the love of one's own body
Chapter 27 Erogenic zones of the body-image
Chapter 28 Neurasthenia
Chapter 29 Depersonalization
Chapter 30 Hypochondria
Chapter 31 Pain and libido
Chapter 32 A case of loss of unity in the body-image
Chapter 33 Hysteria
Chapter 34 Some principles concerning the libidinous structure of the body-image
Chapter 35 Conversion
Chapter 36 Organic disease
Chapter 37 Further remarks on expansion and destruction of the body-image
Chapter 38 Libidinous development of the body-image
Chapter 39 Changing the body-image by clothing, and the psychology of clothes
Chapter 40 Gymnastics, dance and expressive movements
Part 3 SOCIOLOGY OF THE BODY-IMAGE
Chapter 41 Space and the body-image
Chapter 42 On curiosity and on the expression of emotions
Chapter 43 Preliminary remarks on the relation between body-images
Chapter 44 Erythrophobia (fear of blushing) as an instance of a social neurosis
Chapter 45 Social relations of body-images. The social distance
Chapter 46 Imitation and the body-image
Chapter 47 On identification
Chapter 48 Beauty and body-image
Chapter 49 Variability of the body-image