On the relation of the body image to sensation and its absence

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Addresses vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part 1: Embodiment, Speech and Mirror Neurons
6. Body schema, body image, and mirror neurons 21
7. Two phenomenological logics and the mirror neurons theory 45
8. Some comments on the emotional and motor dynamics of language embodiment 65
9. Part 2: Dissociations of body image and body schema and ways of embodiment
10. Vectorial versus configural encoding of body space 89
11. Implicit body representations in action 111
12. Body self and its narrative representation in schizophrenia 127
13. Body structure in psychotic and autistic children 153
14. Radical embodiment 173
15. Part 3: Dynamic interpretations of body image and body schema
16. A functional neurodynamics for the constitution of the own body 189
17. What are we naming? 211
18. Dynamic models of body schematic processes 233
19. Part 4: Clinical approaches and the mirror stage
20. Phenomenology and psychoanalysis on the mirror stage 253
21. Looking at the mirror image 273
22. Anorectics and the mirror 283
23. Françoise Dolto’s clinical conception of the unconscious body image and the body schema 299
24. On the relation of the body image to sensation and its absence 311
25. Index 329