The Image and Appearance of the Human Body: Studies in the Constructive Energies of the Psyche

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Psychology Press, 24.06.1999 - 362 Seiten
First Published in 1999. First Published in 1999. This is the final volume of 10 from the international library of psychology, looking at physiological psychology and focuses on the image and appearance of the human body, Studies in the Constructive Energies of the Psyche. This book attempts to achieve a deeper insight into the nature of the creative process and emphasizes the constructive psychic effort by which new entities are created. Emergent evolution and gestalten in the psychic sphere are not merely data which are given to us as a present; they have to be obtained by struggling.
 

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A case of loss of unity in the bodyimage
7
INTRODUCTION
11
THE PHYSIOLOGICAL BASIS OF THE BODYIMAGE
17
The relation of apraxia to agnosia and
58
Psychogenic bodyimage imperception
70
The influence of habitual posture on the postural
81
The openings of the body
88
The vestibular influence on the perception
94
Some principles concerning the libidinous
170
Organic disease
181
Further remarks on expansion and destruction
188
Libidinous development of the bodyimage
194
Changing the bodyimage by clothing and
201
THE SOCIOLOGY OF THE BODYIMAGE
213
170
98

Development of the bodyimage
104

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