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The Body and Psychology
Edited by:
- Henderikus J Stam - University of Calgary, Canada
May 1998 | 256 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
The body has come to provide a central site for theory and debate from social theory to cultural studies. This important and compelling book looks beyond psychology's traditional biological body to explore what insights can be gained from recent theories of embodiment.
Taking the body as inscribed by social and disciplinary practices, leading contributors explore a wide range of psychological topics in new and challenging ways. Questions surrounding health, gender, history and culture are addressed in contexts such as the psychology of pain, the treatment of anorexia nervosa, and psychology's relationship to transgender activists.
The material in this volume was previously published as a Special Issue of the journal Theory & Psychology.
PART ONE: INTRODUCTION
Henderikus J Stam
The Body's Psychology and Psychology's Body
PART TWO: SOCIAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL BODIES
Alan Radley
Displays and Fragments
Edward E Sampson
Establishing Embodiment in Psychology
Harry J G Kempen
Mind as Body Moving in Space
PART THREE: SEXED AND GENDERED BODIES
Elizabeth A Wilson
`Loving the Computer'
Betty M Bayer and Kareen Ror Malone
Feminism, Psychology and Matters of the Body
Mary Brown Parlee
Situated Knowledges of Personal Embodiment
Caterina Pizanias
Habitus
PART FOUR: SICK AND HEALING BODIES
Cor Baerveldt and Paul Voestermans
The Body as a Selfing Device
Robert Kugelmann
The Psychology and Management of Pain
Arthur W Frank
From Dysappearance to Hyperappearance
