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Body Experience

The Subjective Dimension of Psyche and Soma Contributions to Psychosomatic Medicine

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  • © 1988

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Editors:
  1. Elmar Brähler

    1. Akademischer Oberrat, Abt. Medizinische Psychologie, Zentrum für Psychosomatische Medizin des Klinikums der Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Gießen, Federal Republic of Germany

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIII
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  2. The Significance of Body Experience

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Body Experience: A Neglected Dimension in Medicine

      • E. Brähler
      Pages 3-18

    3. Psychoanalysis and the Body

      • H. Müller-Braunschweig
      Pages 19-34

    4. Body Schema and Body Self

      • P. Joraschky
      Pages 35-50

    5. Sensation and Perception of Pain

      • P. Bernhard
      Pages 51-61

    6. Skin and Body Experience

      • U. Gieler
      Pages 62-73

  5. Measuring Body Experience and Body Complaints

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 187-187
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    2. Psychological Research into Body Experience: Models and Methods

      • P. M. Wiedemann
      Pages 189-199
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Akademischer Oberrat, Abt. Medizinische Psychologie, Zentrum für Psychosomatische Medizin des Klinikums der Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Gießen, Federal Republic of Germany

    Elmar Brähler

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Body Experience

  • Book Subtitle: The Subjective Dimension of Psyche and Soma Contributions to Psychosomatic Medicine

  • Editors: Elmar Brähler

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73412-0

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1988

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-73414-4Published: 06 December 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-73412-0Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 246

  • Topics: Psychoanalysis

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