356 Pages
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Routledge
362 Pages
by
Routledge
356 Pages
by
Routledge
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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.
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;
Biography
Paul Schilder
