Embodied The Psychology of Physical Sensation

Zusatztext I recommend this thought-provoking book to all. Informationen zum Autor Christopher Eccleston is Professor Psychology at the University of Bath in the UK where he directs the Centre for Pain Research. Klappentext We grow up thinking there are five senses, but forget about the ten neglected senses of the body that both enable and limit our experience.Embodied explores the psychology of physical sensation in ten chapters , with each sense explored through interviews and case studies of extreme experiences. A final chapter presents a theory of what is common across these ten senses: of how we deal with the urge to act, and what happens when extreme sensation is inescapable. Zusammenfassung For the most part bodies have been neglected and ignored in psychology, thought of merely as a taxi for the mind, dwarfed by the study of observable behaviour, of action and agency, motivation and performance, or of cognition and emotion. 'Embodied' is a fascinating guide to how we experience our bodies and how our bodies experience the world Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: The ten neglected senses 2: Balance 3: Movement 4: Pressure 5: Breathing 6: Fatigue 7: Pain 8: Itch 9: Temperature 10: Appetite 11: Expulsion 12: Embodied and embedded

Product details

• Authors: Christopher Eccleston, Christopher (Department for Health Eccleston, Eccleston Christopher
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 26.11.2015
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works
• EAN: 9780198727903
• ISBN: 978-0-19-872790-3
• Pages: 290
• Subjects: popular science, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Neuroscience, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Developmental Biology, Experimental Psychology, PSYCHOLOGY / Neuropsychology, PSYCHOLOGY / Experimental Psychology, PSYCHOLOGY / Physiological Psychology, Physiological & neuro-psychology, biopsychology, Neurosciences, Physiological and neuro-psychology, biopsychology, Developmental biology