Body Image and Body Schema

Abstract

1. Introduction (by De Preester, Helena) 2. Part 1: Embodiment, Speech and Mirror Neurons 3. Body schema, body image, and mirror neurons (by Stamenov, Maxim I.) 4. Two phenomenological logics and the mirror neurons theory (by De Preester, Helena) 5. Some comments on the emotional and motor dynamics of language embodiment: A neurophysiological understanding of the Freudian Unconscious (by Bazan, Ariane) 6. Part 2: Dissociations of body image and body schema and ways of embodiment 7. Vectorial versus configural encoding of body space: A neural basis for a distinction between Body Schema and Body Image (by Paillard, Jacques) 8. Implicit body representations in action (by Rossetti, Yves) 9. Body self and its narrative representation in schizophrenia: Does the body schema concept help establish a core deficit? (by Mishara, Aaron L.) 10. Body structure in psychotic and autistic children (by Sauvagnat, Francois) 11. Radical embodiment: Experimenting risks (by Depraz, Nathalie) 12. Part 3: Dynamic interpretations of body image and body schema 13. A functional neurodynamics for the constitution of the own body (by Petit, Jean-Luc) 14. What are we naming? (by Sheets-Johnstone, Maxine) 15. Dynamic models of body schematic processes (by Gallagher, Shaun) 16. Part 4: Clinical approaches and the mirror stage 17. Phenomenology and psychoanalysis on the mirror stage: Different metaphysical backgrounds on body image and body schema (by Van Bunder, David) 18. Looking at the mirror image: The stare and the glance (by Le Gaufey, Guy) 19. Anorectics and the mirror (by Knockaert, Veroniek) 20. Francoise Dolto's clinical conception of the unconscious body image and the body schema (by Geerardyn, Filip) 21. On the relation of the body image to sensation and its absence (by Cole, Jonathan) 22. Index