From body image to emotional bodily experience in eating disorders
This paper is a critical analysis and overview of body image conceptualization and its scope and limits within the field of eating disorders up to the present day. In addition, a concept of emotional bodily experience is advanced in an attempt to shift towards a more comprehensive and multidimension...
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| Format: | Article (Journal) |
| Language: | English |
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[2016]
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Journal of phenomenological psychology
Year: 2016, Volume: 47, Issue: 1, Pages: 17-40 |
| ISSN: | 1569-1624 |
| DOI: | 10.1163/15691624-12341303 |
| Online Access: | Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1163/15691624-12341303 Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://brill.com/view/journals/jpp/47/1/article-p17_2.xml 
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| Author Notes: | María Isabel Gaete (University of Chile), Thomas Fuchs (psychiatrist and philosopher, Karl Jaspers professor for philosophical foundations of psychiatry at the University of Heidelberg, head of the section “Phenomenological Psychopathology and Psychotherapy”) |
| Summary: | This paper is a critical analysis and overview of body image conceptualization and its scope and limits within the field of eating disorders up to the present day. In addition, a concept of emotional bodily experience is advanced in an attempt to shift towards a more comprehensive and multidimensional perspective for the lived body of these patients. It mainly considers contributions from phenomenology, embodiment theories and a review of the empirical findings that shed light on the emotional bodily experience in eating disorders. It proposes an ‘embodied defense’ that leads patients to experiencing their own bodies as objects. This proposal highlights the need for new psychotherapeutic tools in the treatment of <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">ed</span>s that take into account the bodily resonance of emotions and their use for improving adaptive responses to the environment: it calls for helping patients to recover the subjective experience of their bodies. |
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| Item Description: | Online-Publikationsdatum: 19 May 2016 Gesehen am 28.10.2020 |
| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| ISSN: | 1569-1624 |
| DOI: | 10.1163/15691624-12341303 |