Body Schema and Body Image - New Directions

Following on from Shaun Gallagher's influential 2005 book How the Body Shapes the Mind, this volume brings together leading experts from the fields of philosophy, neuroscience, psychology, and psychiatry in a productive dialogue, exploring key questions and debates about the relationship between body schema and body image.

List of contents

• Part I: Theoretical clarification:Body schema and body image


• 1: Frédérique de Vignemont, Victor Pitron, and Adrian J.T. Alsmith: What is the body schema?


• 2: David Morris: The space of the body schema: putting the schema in movement


• 3: Jan Halák: Body schema dynamics in Merleau-Ponty


• 4: Helena De Preester: A radical phenomenology of the body: subjectivity and sensations in body image and body schema


• 5: Shogo Tanaka: Body schema and body image in motor learning: refining Merleau-Ponty's notion of body schema


• 6: Shaun Gallagher: Reimagining the body image


• 7: Andreas Kalckert: The body in the German neurology of the early 20th century


• Part II: Brain, body and self


• 8: Daniele Romano and Angelo Maravita: Plasticity and tool use in the body schema


• 9: Noriaki Kanayama and Kentaro Hiromitsu: Triadic body representations in the human cerebral cortex and peripheral nerves


• 10: Matej Hoffmann: Body models in humans, animals, and robots


• 11: Philippe Rochat and Sara Valencia Botto: From implicit to explicit body awareness in the first two years of life


• 12: Shu Imaizumi, Tomohisa Asai, and Michiko Miyazaki: Cross-referenced body and action for the unified self: empirical, developmental, and clinical perspectives


• 13: Manos Tsakiris and Rosie Drysdale: Growing up a self: on the relation between body image and the experience of the interoceptive body


• Part III: Disorders, anomalies and therapies


• 14: Jonathan Cole: The embodied and social self: insights on body image and body schema from neurological conditions


• 15: Yves Rossetti, Laurence Havé, Anne-Emmanuelle Priot, Laure Pisella, and Gilles Rode: Unilateral body neglect: schemas vs images?


• 16: Jasmine Ho and Bigna Lenggenhager: Neurological underpinnings of body image and body schema disturbances


• 17: Britt Normann: Body schema and body image disturbances in individuals with multiple sclerosis


• 18: Katsunori Miyahara: Body-schema and pain


• 19: Masayuki Hara, Olaf Blanke, and Noriaki Kanayama: Feeling of a presence and anomalous body perception


• 20: Yochai Ataria and Aviya Ben David: The body-image-body-schema/ownership-agency model for pathologies: four case studies

About the author

Yochai Ataria is an Associate Professor at Tel-Hai College, Israel. He conducted his post-doctoral research in the Neurobiology Department at the Weizmann Institute of Science. He is the author of the following books: The Structural Trauma of Western Culture (2017); Body Disownership in Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (2018); The Mathematics of Trauma [Hebrew] (2014); Not in our Brain [Hebrew] (2019); Levi versus Ka-Tsetnik (in press); and Consciousness in Flesh (in press). In addition, he co-edited the following volumes: Interdisciplinary Handbook of Culture and Trauma (2016); Jean Améry: Beyond the Mind's Limits (2019); Kafka: New Perspectives [Hebrew] (2013); The End of the Human Era [Hebrew] (2016); 2001: A Space Odyssey - 50th Anniversary [Hebrew] (2019).

Shogo Tanaka is a Professor of Psychology and Philosophy at Tokai University in Japan. He received his Ph.D. in philosophical psychology from Tokyo Institute of Technology. Dr Tanaka is primarily interested in phenomenology and psychology, more specifically, in clarifying the theoretical foundations of psychology from the perspective of embodiment, inspired by the ideas of Maurice Merleau-Ponty. His publications encompass a broad range of issues, including body schema, body image, skill acquisition, embodied self, social cognition, theory of mind, and intercorporeality. From 2013-2014, and from 2016-2017, he stayed at the Department of Psychiatry of the University of Heidelberg in Germany as a visiting scholar, where he worked on phenomenology, psychology and psychopathology. His recent publications include, 'Intercorporeality and Aida' (Theory & Psychology, 27, 337-353), 'What is it like to be disconnected from the body?' (Journal of Consciousness Studies, 25, 239-262) and other articles.

Shaun Gallagher is the Lillian and Morrie Moss Professor of Excellence in Philosophy at the University of Memphis, USA, and Professorial Fellow at the School of Liberal Arts, University of Wollongong, Australia. He was a Humboldt Foundation Anneliese Maier Research Fellow (2012-18). His publications include Action and Interaction (2020); Enactivist Interventions: Rethinking the Mind (2017); The Neurophenomenology of Awe and Wonder (2015); Phenomenology (2012); The Phenomenological Mind (with Dan Zahavi, 2012); and How the Body Shapes the Mind (2005). He's also editor-in-chief of the journal Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences.

Summary

Following on from Shaun Gallagher's influential 2005 book How the Body Shapes the Mind, this volume brings together leading experts from the fields of philosophy, neuroscience, psychology, and psychiatry in a productive dialogue, exploring key questions and debates about the relationship between body schema and body image.

Additional text

Overall, this text is surprisingly readable and accessible. The issues are clearly explained, and readers will feel at the cutting edge of an important research trend.

Product details

• Authors: Yochai (Associate Professor Ataria
• Assisted by: Yochai Ataria (Editor), Ataria Yochai (Editor), Shaun Gallagher (Editor), Gallagher Shaun (Editor), Shogo Tanaka (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.2021
• EAN: 9780198851721
• ISBN: 978-0-19-885172-1
• No. of pages: 384
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Philosophy of Mind, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Psychiatry, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Neurosciences, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Cognitive studies, Cognitive Science