Body Image Disorders

A Clinical, Psychodynamic, and Neuroscientific Perspective
1. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-1-041-19554-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 212 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: IPA in the Community

Body Image Disorders brings neuropsychoanalysis into dialogue with phenomenology, cognitive neuroscience, and clinical practice and examines how bodily experience is organized through desire, anxiety, shame, conflict, and internalized relationships.

The chapters explore the complex interplay between the conscious and unconscious elements that shape our body image, from intersubjective experiences and emotional responses to perceptual processes and sociocultural influences. The book examines clinical manifestations including eating disorders and dysmorphic conditions to the modern phenomenon of body image addiction in social media. Integrating neuropsychoanalytic research with clinical understanding, the contributors present innovative frameworks for conceptualizing and treating body image disturbances.

Body Image Disorders integrates neuroscience with psychoanalytic theories of embodiment and clinical technique which will be of great interest to clinicians, researchers, advanced students, psychoanalysts in practice and in training, and to all practitioners working clinically with body image.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional Practice & Development, and Professional Reference

Autoren/Hrsg.

Spadazzi, Claudia

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie Psychopathologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Biologische Psychologie, Neuropsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Essstörungen & Therapie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Contributors

Chapter 1. Introduction

Harvey Schwartz

Chapter 2. Body image as a pattern of individual, social and institutional processes: Reflections on Paul Schilder’s psychoanalytic views

Shaun Gallagher

Chapter 3. The functional significance of the many strange homunculi in our brain

Barry R. Komisaruk

Chapter 4. The body in the configuration of body image

Rosa Spagnolo

Chapter 5. Embodied Self and Psychopathology: From Affective Disembodiment to the Reorganization of the Self

Andrea Scalabrini

Chapter 6. Intercorporeality and body image – general concept, research findings and clinical application

Joachim Küchenhoff

Chapter 7. Body Image Revolution

Humberto Lorenzo Persano

Chapter 8. IS THIS REALLY ME? Changing Body Images in Response to Weight Loss during Psychoanalytic Treatment

Jennifer Davids

Chapter 9. Understanding and Treating Shame in Body Image Disorders: A Neuropsychoanalytic and Neuroaesthetic Perspective

Francesco Castellet y Ballará

Chapter 10. The intricate relationship between Body Dysmorphic Disorders, skin health and unbearable representations

Jorge C. Ulnik

Chapter 11. An Embodied Reading of Caste & Gender in India

Jhuma Basak

Chapter 12. Body Image Addiction in the Selfie Era: A Psychoanalytic Perspective

José Alberto Zusman

Chapter 13. “Is dysmorphia a contemporary epidemic?”

Claudia Spadazzi

Über Autor(innen)

Claudia Spadazzi, M.D., is a Full Member of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society (SPI) and the International Psychoanalytical Association (IPA). She is a clinical psychologist, gynaecologist, and sexual therapist. Her professional interests include bridging psychoanalysis with neuroscientific findings. She is a Co-founder of International Psychoanalytic Dialogues (IPD) and a member of the Neuropsychoanalysis Association (NPSA). She is an expert in psychosomatics, with a particular focus on obstetrics and gynaecology and Chair of the IPA in Health Committee and member of the IIRC.