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"One should accept one's body as one's home, a living space designated for communication and relationships. We live in a highly complex time deeply marked by the digital revolution, an infosphere that has produced radical transformations,1 increasingly conspicuous acquisitions of cognitive neuroscience, and all related anthropological fallouts.2 Our time witnesses the hybridization of humans and machines, confronting us with the onerous problem of new forms and the effective consistency of post-human freedom"--
Sommario
Part I. Contemporary Perspectives in Anthropology, Philosophy, and Psychology on the Human Body: An Introductory Overview: 1. The conception of the human body: An evolutionary study from ancient times to the hypermodern era; Part II. Brain Without Body, Body Without Brain, and Contemporary Body Image Disorders: 2. Body schema, body image, and hypermodern alterations; 3. Alexithymia and somatizations; 4. The myth of the perfect body image, body dysmorphic disorder, and bigorexia; 5. The complex relationship between the mind, the body, and the contemporary environment; Part III. A Specific Analysis: The Hypermodern Contradictory Relationship With Food: 6. Contemporary social trends regarding food: paradoxes and food tribes; 7. Orthorexia; 8. Contemporary perspectives on eating disorders; 9. Nervous bulimia and binge eating disorder: A contemporary overview; 10. Contemporary on obesity; Part IV. Which Possible Horizons? Some Final Considerations: 11. Body image, narcissims, and depression; 12. The global process of psycho-bodily development.
Info autore
Dr. Fabio Gabrielli is a clinical practitioner and Professor of Philosophical Anthropology and Biochemistry at Ludes University of Lugano, Switzerland where he has previously served as Dean. Gabrielli has published over two hundred works including papers on 'Quantum Human and Animal Consciousness' (2011) and 'Considerations on Blood Platelets: A Neuron's Mirror for Mood Disorders?' (2012).Floriana Irtelli is a lecturer at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan. She is a psychoanalyst and psychotherapist. Irtelli also works at the Fatebenefratelli Hospital, Milan, performing research and clinical activities. She has edited collections on Psychosis (2018) and Family Therapy (2019). Her most recent book is about Contemporary Perspectives on Relational Wellness (2018).
Riassunto
This volume combines a wide historical overview on body image and eating disorders with contemporary anthropological and psychological theories. It is for those who are interested in the worrying relationship between the spread of new modern diseases and the influence of mass media, including social networking sites.
Prefazione
A contemporary, interdisciplinary work that examines some of the most recent eating disorders and body image disorders of Western cultures.
