Body Experience
The Subjective Dimension of Psyche and Soma Contributions to Psychosomatic Medicine
Published on 6. December 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
XIII, 246 pages
978-3-642-73414-4 (ISBN)
Description
In this book body experience is seen as the subjective expression of psyche and soma and is discussed in relation to its significance in modern medical practice and psychoanalysis. The authors relate how the patient's subjective expression of his or her body frequently plays only a marginal role in current therapy and how the central factor of many diseases is consequently missed. Particularly in the growing field of psychoanalytic psychosomatic medicine it will be necessary to pay the issue of body experience more attention. These theoretical and empirical contributions on body experience were specially prepared for the volume. Initial chapters cover a variety of aspects of body experience and its general significance in medicine and psychoanalysis. Following chapters consider body-oriented forms of therapy, sex-related aspects of body experience and the empirical measurement of body experience and bodily complaints.
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Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1988
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin
Germany
Publishing group
Springer Berlin
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
XIII, 246 p.
Dimensions
Height: 24.4 cm
Width: 17 cm
Weight
462 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-642-73414-4 (9783642734144)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-642-73412-0
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Elmar Brähler
Body Experience
The Subjective Dimension of Psyche and Soma Contributions to Psychosomatic Medicine
E-Book
12/2012
Springer
€96.29
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Elmar Brähler
Body Experience
The Subjective Dimension of Psyche and Soma Contributions to Psychosomatic Medicine
Book
08/1988
1st Edition
Springer
€85.55
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Content
A. The Significance of Body Experience.- Body Experience: A Neglected Dimension in Medicine.- Psychoanalysis and the Body.- Body Schema and Body Self.- Sensation and Perception of Pain.- Skin and Body Experience.- B. Body Experience in Therapy.- Body Experience and Alienation: Psychoanalytically Oriented Concentrative Movement Therapy as an Introduction to Psychotherapy for Psychosomatic Patients.- Body Therapeutic Techniques in Disease-Oriented Psychoanalytic Group Therapy with Asthma Patients.- Exercises in Concentrative Body Perception: A Psychophysiological Therapy Technique.- C. Sex-Specific Body Experience.- Body Experience of Men with Prostatosis.- Male Body Image.- Fluor Albus: How Doctors and Patients React to a Body Symptom.- The Role of Body Experience in Women's Desire for Children and During Pregnancy, Birth and the Time after Delivery.- Infertility: Injury and Challenge.- Body Complaints Among Recovered Genital Cancer Patients and Their Partners.- D. Measuring Body Experience and Body Complaints.- Psychological Research into Body Experience: Models and Methods.- Results Obtained with a Body Experience Questionnaire.- The Body and Its Complaints: A Review of Findings Using the Giessen Subjective Complaints List.- Body Complaints in Children from 8 to 15 Years of Age.