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Body Neutrality Finding Acceptance and Liberation in a Body-Focused Culture

Body Neutrality Finding Acceptance and Liberation in a Body-Focused Culture

This practical accessible book teaches readers how to practice healthy body image habits and let go of an emphasis on body image through research activities and personal stories. Body neutrality is a body image approach focused on finding acceptance and liberation from the body-focused culture in which we live. Body neutrality is a shift toward seeing our bodies as a vessel of who we are rather than as who we are. This guide is organized into thirteen chapters each outlining a different concept of body neutrality ranging from comparison and identity to mindfulness and gratitude inviting participation from the reader through end-of-chapter activities. For anyone aiming to release the enslaving emphasis placed on appearance in a world where body obsession has become inappropriately “normal ” this book will provide insight and practical guidance toward freedom. Body Neutrality is for anyone struggling with self-esteem and body image issues who aims for acceptance and liberation. | Body Neutrality Finding Acceptance and Liberation in a Body-Focused Culture

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Body Image Understanding Body Dissatisfaction in Men Women and Children

Body Image Understanding Body Dissatisfaction in Men Women and Children

Fully revised and updated Body Image 4th Edition provides a comprehensive summary of research on body image in men women and children drawing together research findings from the fields of psychology sociology and gender studies. The new edition presents all the latest research on body image including work on technology and body image interventions to reduce body dissatisfaction and links between body image BMI and clothing availability. Including data from interviews and focus groups with men women and children who have spoken about body image and its impact on the rest of their lives the book explores a range of important contemporary issues including the effects of social media and selfie-taking on body image the work of activists and academics who are trying to change how the fashion industry presents women’s bodies and new work investigating impacts of whole-body scanning technology and game-play avatars on appearance concern. Reflecting the direction of research on body image from a range of disciplines since the previous edition the book also includes an increased focus on body image in men looking at studies on pressures to be more muscular and toned and evaluating the possible impacts on health-related behaviours such as exercise and body-related drug use. The only sole-authored text in the field and integrating work from several disciplines this is essential reading for students and researchers in psychology sociology computing science sport and exercise science and gender studies with an interest in reducing body dissatisfaction in men women and children. | Body Image Understanding Body Dissatisfaction in Men Women and Children

GBP 44.99
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Mentalizing the Body Integrating Body and Mind in Psychotherapy

Mentalizing the Body Integrating Body and Mind in Psychotherapy

Mentalizing the Body brings together theory and practice with the latest neurobiological and developmental psychological findings to understand the relevance of the body in a wide range of mental disorders especially personality and somatization disorders. Ulrich Schultz-Venrath provides insight on individual bodily phenomena within psychotherapeutic treatments – experienced by patients as well as therapists – and focuses on the importance of the intentionality of bodily symptoms and how they can be integrated in the talking cure. Mentalizing the Body expands the work of Anthony Bateman and Peter Fonagy adding the “body mode” in contrast to the popular concept of “embodied mentalizing. ” Promoting mentalizing in psychotherapy while taking the body into account helps not only patients with somatoform and eating disorders but also those whose psychological complaints have a missing connection to the body. Schultz-Venrath provides detailed insight on the range of therapies and treatments available from individual and group psychotherapies to body art and music therapy with clinical case studies and diagrams throughout. Mentalizing the Body will be of great interest to practitioners and researchers – from psychoanalysts and psychotherapists to psychiatrists and psychologists seeking to understand the mentalization model and all healthcare professionals working with severe mental disorders. | Mentalizing the Body Integrating Body and Mind in Psychotherapy

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Body/Embodiment Symbolic Interaction and the Sociology of the Body

Body/Embodiment Symbolic Interaction and the Sociology of the Body

The body and experiences of embodiment have generated a rich and diverse sociological literature. This volume articulates and illustrates one major approach to the sociology of the body: symbolic interactionism an increasingly prevalent theoretical base of contemporary sociology derived from the pragmatism of writers such as John Dewey William James Charles Peirce Charles Cooley and George Herbert Mead. The authors argue that from an interactionist perspective the body is much more than a tangible corporeal object - it is a vessel of great significance to the individual and society. From this perspective body self and social interaction are intimately interrelated and constantly reconfigured. The collection constitutes a unique anthology of empirical research on the body from health and illness to sexuality from beauty and imagery to bodily performance in sport and art and from mediated communication to plastic surgery. The contributions are informed by innovative interactionist theory offering fresh insights into one of the fastest growing sub-disciplines of sociology and cultural studies. | Body/Embodiment Symbolic Interaction and the Sociology of the Body

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Postfeminism and Body Image

Postfeminism and Body Image

Postfeminism and Body Image is a groundbreaking work that provides a poststructuralist and psychosocial analysis of key issues at the intersections of body image psychology and media. The book outlines the theoretical framework through the work of renowned philosophers Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze and their use in feminist scholarship to address body-image issues and challenges in the context of a postfeminist sensibility. The authors rethink body image calling into question assumptions and obligations that affect recent issues related to social-media use body positivity the transformation imperative body shaming and muscular masculinity. The analysis shows the advantage of seeing body image as a form of non-linear warfare structured by contradiction confusion and critique where attempts to challenge oppressive body image practices are appropriated under the guise of positive alternatives to maintain that oppression. Through real-world examples these nuanced concepts are made relatable and comprehensible to the readers. The book also offers a number of affirmative and hopeful ways forward. This is an indispensable resource for students and professionals of Gender studies Health Psychology Social Psychology and Media and Cultural Studies. It is also ideal for anyone exploring body image self-image postfeminism and poststructualism.

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Body-to-Body Intimacy Transformation Through Love Sex and Neurobiology

Body-to-Body Intimacy Transformation Through Love Sex and Neurobiology

This book presents an integrative growth-oriented approach to therapy with couples that demonstrates the dynamic interplay between partners’ emotional issues and their sexual difficulties. It offers a model for relational and sexual enhancement that focuses as much on partners’ present nonverbal body-to-body communications as on their words. Dr. Stella Resnick draws on research from interpersonal neurobiology sexology positive psychology and Gestalt therapy and shares a rich assortment of therapy vignettes to demonstrate the transformative power of pleasure and how a focus on body-to-body intimacy can heal emotional wounds from the past and encourage greater presence empathy authenticity playfulness and sexual pleasure between intimate partners. The therapeutic process is explored in four related spectrums: the Problem-Transformation Spectrum the Attachment-Sexuality Spectrum the Pain-Pleasure Spectrum and the Cognitive-Somatic-Experiential-Behavioral-Spectrum. Part I lays the theoretical foundation for the work. Part II examines the early attachment bond between parent and child and its effects on adult capacity for emotional closeness and sexual pleasure. Part III offers methods for resolving painful emotional issues underlying many sexual difficulties. Finally Part IV describes the procedure for moving from a cognitive reframing of the problem to a somatic focus on the body and tracking present-moment emotional interactions to the repair of relational injuries that nurture transformational change. Also included is a series of process-oriented exercises and a handout that therapists can use in their own practice. Body-to-Body Intimacy will enable couples and sex therapists to expand their practices and enrich their clients’ sexual and relational dynamics. This book also contains valuable information that will be appreciated by anyone interested in a greater understanding of a growth-oriented therapeutic process for couples and what can be achieved together by gaining a deeply loving and sexually fulfilling intimate love relationship. | Body-to-Body Intimacy Transformation Through Love Sex and Neurobiology

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Phenomenology of the Broken Body

Phenomenology of the Broken Body

Some fundamental aspects of the lived body only become evident when it breaks down through illness weakness or pain. From a phenomenological point of view various breakdowns are worth analyzing for their own sake and discussing them also opens up overlooked dimensions of our bodily constitution. This book brings together different approaches that shed light on the phenomenology of the lived body—its normality and abnormality health and sickness its activity as well as its passivity. The contributors integrate phenomenological insights with discussions about bodily brokenness in philosophy theology medical science and literary theory. Phenomenology of the Broken Body demonstrates how the broken body sheds fresh light on the nuances of embodied experience in ordinary life and ultimately questions phenomenology’s preunderstanding of the body.

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Body Politics

Body Politics

The politics of the body is often highly contested culturally specific and controlled and this book calls our attention to how bodies are included or excluded in the polity. With governments regulating bodies in ways that mark the political boundaries of who is a citizen worthy of protection and rights as well as those who transgress socially proscribed norms the contributors to this volume offer a systematic investigation of both theoretical and empirical account of bodily differences broadly defined. These chapters diverse in both the populations and the political behaviours examined as well as the methodological approaches employed showcase the significance of body politics in a way few edited works in political science currently do. Arguing that the body is an important site to understand power relations this book will be of interest to those studying the unequal application of rights to women racial and ethnic minorities the LGBTQ community and people with disabilities. This book was originally published as a special issue of Politics Groups and Identities.

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Rethinking the Body in South Asian Traditions

Rethinking the Body in South Asian Traditions

This book analyses cultural questions related to representations of the body in South Asian traditions human perceptions and attitudes toward the body in religious and cultural contexts as well as the processes of interpreting notions of the body in religious and literary texts. Utilising an interdisciplinary perspective by means of textual study and ideological analysis anthropological analysis and phenomenological analysis the book explores both insider- and outsider perspectives and issues related to the body from the 2nd century CE up to the present-day. Chapters assess various aspects of the body including processes of embodiment and questions of mythologizing the divine body and othering the human body as revealed in the literatures and cultures of South Asia. The book analyses notions of mythologizing and othering of the body as a powerful ideological discourse which empowers or marginalizes at all levels of the human condition. Offering a deep insight into the study of religion and issues of the body in South Asian literature religion and culture this book will be of interest to academics in the fields of South Asian studies South Asian religions South Asian literatures cultural studies philosophy and comparative literature. | Rethinking the Body in South Asian Traditions

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The Routledge Handbook of Religion and the Body

The Routledge Handbook of Religion and the Body

The Routledge Handbook of Religion and the Body is the first comprehensive volume to feature multireligious cross-cultural perspectives on the body and embodiment. Featuring multidisciplinary approaches and methodologies from the humanities and the social sciences it addresses the body and embodied religiosity in theological ethical and cultural contexts. Comprised of 30 chapters by a team of international contributors the handbook is divided into four parts: Theology and Embodied Religiosity Gender Sexuality and Body Regulations Ritual and Performance Religion Healing and the Future of the Body Each part examines central issues debates and problems in relation to global belief systems including embodiments of love transfiguration the secular body disability body language maternal bodies embodied emotions celibacy ecology and the body reshaping the corporal body initiation rites physiology Tantra Reiki practice religious experience technological body modifications and ethics and the body. Providing a breadth of rich and innovative research it is a must-read for students and scholars in religious studies theology philosophy sociology anthropology psychology history and cultural and gender studies.

GBP 190.00
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Your Body Knows A Movement Guide for Actors

Your Body Knows A Movement Guide for Actors

Your Body Knows provides the foundation actors need to move with ease and power. It is a practical guide to movement starting at the very beginning: knowing your body and experiencing how it works. Through the work of F. M. Alexander Rudolf Laban and Michael Chekhov this book offers basic training in movement fundamentals. Its step-by-step process supports the actor's work in any acting or movement training program and as a working professional. The book focuses on three main areas of exploration: Body facts – Know your body and its design for movement. Let go of misinformed ideas about your body. Move more freely avoid injury and develop a strong body-mind connection. Movement facts – What is movement? Discover the movement fundamentals that can serve your art. Explore new ways of moving. Creative inspiration – Connect your body mind and imagination to liberate authentic and expressive character movement. Your Body Knows: A Movement Guide for Actors is an excellent resource for acting students and their teachers promoting a strong onstage presence and awakening unlimited potential for creative expression. | Your Body Knows A Movement Guide for Actors

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Applying Body Mapping in Research An Arts-Based Method

Applying Body Mapping in Research An Arts-Based Method

This book provides an overview of the innovative arts-based research method of body mapping and offers a snapshot of the field. The review of body mapping projects by Boydell et al. confirms the potential research and therapeutic benefits associated with body mapping. The book describes a series of body mapping research projects that focus on populations marginalised by disability mental health status and other vulnerable identities. Chapters focus on summarising the current state of the art and its application with marginalised groups; analytic strategies for body mapping; highlighting body mapping as a creation and a dissemination process; emerging body mapping techniques including web-based virtual reality and wearable technology applications; and measuring the impact of body maps on planning practice and behaviour. Contributors and editors include interdisciplinary experts from the fields of psychology sociology anthropology and beyond. Offering innovative ways of engaging in body mapping research which result in real-world impact this book is an essential resource for postgraduate students and researchers. | Applying Body Mapping in Research An Arts-Based Method

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David Foster Wallace and the Body

David Foster Wallace and the Body

David Foster Wallace and the Body is the first full-length study to focus on Wallace’s career-long fascination with the human body and the textual representation of the body. The book provides engaging accessible close readings that highlight the importance of the overlooked and yet central theme of all of this major American author’s works: having a body. Wallace repeatedly made clear that good fiction is about what it means to be a ‘human being’. A large part of what that means is having a body and being conscious of the conflicts that arise morally and physically as a result; a fact with which as Wallace forcefully and convincingly argues we all desire ‘to be reconciled’. Given the ubiquity of the themes of embodiment in Wallace’s work this study is an important addition to an expanding field. The book also opens up the themes addressed to interrogate aspects of contemporary literature culture and society more generally placing Wallace’s works in the history of literary and philosophical engagements with the brute fact of embodiment.

GBP 38.99
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Body Image as an Everyday Problematic Looking Good

Body Image as an Everyday Problematic Looking Good

It is well known that body image has been associated to health risks related to eating habits. However to what extent do identity categories everyday social interaction and common discourses affect our preoccupations and sufferings related to body image in contemporary society and our coordinated ways of confronting them?In Body Image as an Everyday Problematic Diaz seeks to offer a comprehensive perspective on body image as an everyday problematic grounded on verbal accounts of biographic experience. The main body of the book unfolds through five analyses: (1) a framework for how persons are categorized on the grounds of their beauty weight or physical appeal; with reference to heterosexual and friendship relations; (2) how men position themselves with respect to culturally provided images of beautiful women in relation to their heterosexual partners; (3) biographic processes through which people locate problems with the body confront them and interpret them after some time; (4) the role of mothers in providing help across different kinds of problems; and (5) the experiences and contradictions of caring for relatives or partners who suffer for their body image. Indeed these five analytical threads together compose a structured and rich understanding of the meaningful social order that lies at the core of our everyday preoccupations with the body. Challenging conventional psychological theories of body image this enlightening volume will appeal to postgraduate students and postdoctoral researchers interested in fields such as Gender Studies Clinical Psychology and Sociology. | Body Image as an Everyday Problematic Looking Good

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The Collaborative Body in Qualitative Research Becoming Bodyography

The Collaborative Body in Qualitative Research Becoming Bodyography

The Collaborative Body in Qualitative Research challenges normative philosophies that have frequently neglected the body’s place in research and then illustrates how the body is essential for all meaning making. By ‘voicing the body’ the first part of this rebellious book problematizes how the body is used/assessed yet often silenced in academic writing. This book then fluidly moves to celebrating the body through discussing taboo topics like sex/sexuality in friendship underwear (knickers) ageing and death as well as how a non-binary body moves in a heteronormative world. Through the lens of Bodyography this book does research differently – illuminating how the body flourishes excites knowledge and is complicated when placed on a ‘screen’. This book celebrates a collaborative and arts-based approach. This book is a dialogue between The Bodies Collective with dialogic resonance sections between each chapter and art pieces throughout. This book will encourage all scholars to do research differently. Anyone with a thirst to challenge normative practices in academia and who wants research to be inspiring and playful will fall in love with this book. N. B. Please cite the authorship of this book as 'The Bodies Collective (2023)' | The Collaborative Body in Qualitative Research Becoming Bodyography

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Mind-Body Medicine in Clinical Practice

Mind-Body Medicine in Clinical Practice

Consumer demand for integrative medicine has increased over recent decades and cutting-edge research in neuroscience has identified opportunities for new treatment options. This text outlines the evidence behind mind-body medicine and provides rich case-based examples. . It is written by a clinician for clinicians to help practitioners stay current in this emerging field. Including foundational chapters on the relevance of mind-body medicine the effects of stress communication skills and methods for incorporating mind-body medicine into consultation this book then introduces various mind-body therapies and considers their use in selected clinical conditions. The therapies are grouped into chapters on breath work and relaxation; hypnosis and guided imagery; meditation mindfulness spirituality and compassion-based therapies; creative arts therapies; and movement therapies. Each chapter includes case studies background and history best use training requirements risks and benefits. The part focusing on specific conditions updates research and provides pediatric and adult examples in the areas of: anxiety and depression; acute and chronic pain; gastrointestinal and urologic conditions; auto-immune inflammatory; and surgery oncology and other conditions. Providing resources and practical tools to help clinicians incorporate evidence-based mind-body medicine therapies into patient care this book is an invaluable reference for medical and nursing students as well as for residents fellows nurse practitioners and physician assistants across a wide variety of specialties. | Mind-Body Medicine in Clinical Practice

GBP 46.99
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Body Composition Health and Performance in Exercise and Sport

Body Composition Health and Performance in Exercise and Sport

Interest in the relationships between body structure and function in physical activity has persisted for centuries. Body Composition: Health and Performance in Exercise and Sport advances understanding beyond simple descriptions of body physique and composition of athletes and fills gaps in our understanding of the important role of muscle fat and bone in facilitating physical performance and health in sports and physically demanding occupations. lt addresses basic practical and applied topics in body composition performance and health with comprehensive reviews organized in four logical parts: Body Composition Assessment; Physical Activity and Body Composition; Body Composition in Sports and Occupations; and Moderating Factors. This book integrates state-of-the-art knowledge by international experts in the field and produces an evidence-based practical guide for a balanced understanding of the role and use of body composition assessment in physical performance and health for youth and adults. It also provides a needed link between the practice of body composition assessment and its application by members of public health advisory committees that develop national guidelines for diet physical activity and health. This book is suitable for students and professionals in sports nutrition exercise science kinesiology and athletic training. Sport administrators and policy-makers for international and national sport federations and organizations and national intercollegiate and scholastic federations would also benefit from this book. | Body Composition Health and Performance in Exercise and Sport

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The Body in History Culture and the Arts

The Body in History Culture and the Arts

The aim of this book is to explore the body in various historical contexts and to take it as a point of departure for broader historiographical projects. The chapters in the volume present the ways in which the body constitutes a valuable and productive object of historical analysis especially as a lens through which to trace histories of social political and cultural phenomena and processes. More specifically the authors use the body as a tool for critical re-examination of particular histories of human experience and of societal and cultural practices thus contributing to the burgeoning area of body history in terms of both specific case studies as well as historiography in general. | The Body in History Culture and the Arts

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Embodied Approaches to Supervision The Listening Body

Embodied Approaches to Supervision The Listening Body

Embodied Approaches to Supervision presents innovative approaches to working with the body in supervision. The authors who are all experts in their field bring a wealth of experience and knowledge to each chapter raising the reader’s awareness of the value of working with the body in the supervisory relationship. With the help of case vignettes the book offers reflections on the intimate and dynamic interaction between mind and body and how to work with this in supervision. It presents diverse approaches to practice where the body is at the centre of facilitating reflection and containment of supervisees either in one-to-one or group contexts in person and online. Readers gain insight about how embodiment is attended to within as well as outside of the session in the context of self-supervision. This text will be of value to supervisors and supervisors-in-training practitioners seeking supervision and anyone keen to learn more about embodied approaches in supervision. | Embodied Approaches to Supervision The Listening Body

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Being a Lived Body From a Neo-phenomenological Point of View

Being a Lived Body From a Neo-phenomenological Point of View

This book begins with the distinction between the so-called lived body or felt body (Leib) and the physical body (Körper) tracing the conceptual history of this distinction through key figures in philosophical and social thoughts and articulating a theory of the lived body that draws on the New Phenomenology developed by Hermann Schmitz. An explanation of our being-in-the-world in terms of a felt-bodily communication with all perceived forms and their affective-bodily resonance in us Being a Lived Body integrates and critically assesses the leading theories of embodiment while presenting a new approach to the body. It will therefore appeal to scholars of philosophy social theory and anthropology with interests in phenomenology and embodiment. | Being a Lived Body From a Neo-phenomenological Point of View

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Producing the Archival Body

Producing the Archival Body

Producing the Archival Body draws on theoretical and practical research conducted within US and Canadian archives along with critical and cultural theory to examine the everyday lived experiences of archivists and records creators that are often overlooked during archival and media production. Expanding on the author’s previous work which engaged archival and queer theories to develop the Queer/ed Archival Methodology that intervenes in traditional archival practices the book invites readers interested in humanistic inquiry to re-consider how archives are defined understood deployed and accessed to produce subjects. Arguing that archives and bodies are mutually constitutive and developing a keen focus on the body and embodiment alongside archival theory the author introduces new understandings of archival bodies. Contributing to recent disciplinary moves that offer a more transdisciplinary emphasis Lee interrogates how power circulates and is deployed in archival contexts in order to build critical understandings of how deeply archives influence and shape the production of knowledges and human subjectivities. Producing the Archival Body will be essential reading for academics and students engaged in the study of archival studies library and information science gender and women’s studies anthropology history digital humanities and media studies. It should also be of great interest to practitioners working in and with archives

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Clothed in the Body Asceticism the Body and the Spiritual in the Late Antique Era

Clothed in the Body Asceticism the Body and the Spiritual in the Late Antique Era

Hunt examines the apparent paradox that Jesus' earthly existence and post resurrection appearances are experienced through consummately physical actions and attributes yet some ascetics within the Christian tradition appear to seek to deny the value of the human body to find it deadening of spiritual life. Hunt considers why the Christian tradition as a whole has rarely managed more than an uneasy truce between the physical and the spiritual aspects of the human person. Why is it that the 'Church' has energetically argued through centuries of ecumenical councils for the dual nature of Christ but seems still unwilling to accept the full integration of physical and spiritual within humanity despite Gregory of Nazianzus's comment that 'what has not been assumed has not been redeemed'? | Clothed in the Body Asceticism the Body and the Spiritual in the Late Antique Era

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Architectural Colossi and the Human Body Buildings and Metaphors

Architectural Colossi and the Human Body Buildings and Metaphors

The human body has been used as both a model and metaphor in architecture since antiquity. This book explores how it has been an inspiration for the exterior form of architectural colossi through the years. It considers the body as a source of architectural and artistic representation and in doing so explores the results of such practices in colossal sculptures and architectural praxis within a philosophical discourse of space time and media. Architectural Colossi and the Human Body discusses the role of Platonic and Cartesian philosophy and how philosophers such as Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty and theoreticians such as Frascari and Pallasmaa have seen described and analysed the human body and the role of architecture and perception. Drawing upon three key case studies and by employing theoretical ideas of Venturi and others this book will provide an understanding of the role of anthromorphism and the relation and use of the human body with reference to selected architects and artists. | Architectural Colossi and the Human Body Buildings and Metaphors

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Psychoanalysis and the Mind-Body Problem

Psychoanalysis and the Mind-Body Problem

Winner of the 2022 NAAP Gradiva Award for Best Edited Book In this volume internationally acclaimed psychoanalysts philosophers and scholars of humanities examine the mind-body problem and provide differing analyses on the nature of mind unconscious structure mental properties qualia and the contours of consciousness. Given that disciplines from the humanities and the social sciences to neuroscience cannot agree upon the nature of consciousness—from what constitutes psychic reality to mental properties psychoanalysis has a unique perspective that is largely ignored by mainstream paradigms. This book provides a comprehensive exploration of the mind-body problem in various psychoanalytic schools of thought including philosophical and metapsychological points of view. Psychoanalysis and the Mind-Body Problem will be of interest to psychoanalysts philosophers neuroscientists evolutionary biologists academics and those generally interested in the humanities cognitive science and the philosophy of mind.

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