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The Embodied Self
Dimensions, Coherence and Disorders
Progress of scientific research into the foundations of human self-experience is fascinating, but it also poses serious questions:
Is the self more than an illusion created by the brain?
What role does the body play for self-experience and interSubjectivity?
What can pathologies of the self tell us about the constitution of normal self-awareness?
What consequences does this have for our concepts and therapy of psychiatric and psychosomatic disorders?
How may the results of neurobiological, psychological, philosophical and clinical research on the self and its disorders be related to each other?
These and other key questions are dealt with in this volume which offers cutting-edge research in an expanding interdisciplinary area. It is based on the joint European project DISCOS ("Disorders and Coherence of the Embodied Self") which unites philosophers, neuroscientists, psychologists and psychiatrists who are among the leading researchers in their respective field.
List of contents
Philosophy: What makes up a Self? Self Coherence and its Origins
Minimal Self and Narrative Self
Body Perception and Self-Consciousness
Radical Enactivism and Narrative Practice
A Common Ground Approach to Selfhood
Neuroscience: Brain, Consciousness and Self
Neuroscientific Approach to InterSubjectivity
Brain Function in Disorders of Consciousness
Cognitive and Bodily Selves
Is There a Self Without Selves? Development of Self and InterSubjectivity
Contingency Perception
Me and Mine in Early Development
Autism: A Disorder in the Development of Self
Understanding InterSubjectivity: Enactive and Embodied
Psychiatry and Psychosomatic Medicine: How to Treat a Self. Self Disorders and Their Therapy
Phenomenology of Self-Disorders
Mentalization and Structural Functioning: Therapeutic Implications
Boundaries and Common Grounds: Aspects of Integration
About the author
Thomas Fuchs, geb. 1958, studierte Medizin, Geschichte und Philosophie in München. Er promovierte 1989 in Medizingeschichte. Nach Ausbildung zum Facharzt für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie seit 1997 Oberarzt an der Psychiatrischen Universitätsklinik Heidelberg. 1999 Habilitation in Psychiatrie und Promotion in Philosophie. Zahlreiche Veröffentlichungen zur Anthropologie, Psychopathologie und Medizinethik.
