Body image and eating disorders : an anthropological and psychological overview / Fabio Gabrielli, Ludes University, Lugano, Floriana Irtelli, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan.
12. A Global Process of Psycho-Bodily Development. 1. The Conception of the Human Body: An Evolutionary Study from Ancient Times to the Hyper Modern Era -- 1.1 The Hypermodern Concept of The Body: Anthropological Implications -- 1.2 Miguel Benasayag's Concepts of Functioning and Existence -- 1.3 The Existential Views of Contemporary Humanity -- 1.4 An Era Metaphorically "Crossed by Water" -- 1.5 The Body without Decency: A Contemporary Phenomena -- Part II: Brain Without Body, Body Without Brain, and Contemporary Body Image Disorders -- 2. Body Schema, Body Image, and Hypermodern Alterations -- 2.1 Brain without Body: Abstractization -- 2.2 Mechanization -- 3. Alexithymia and Somatizations -- 3.1 Somatization and Alexithymia -- 3.2 Deterritorialization -- 4. The Myth of the Perfect Body Image, Body Dysmorphic Disorder, and Bigorexia -- 4.1 Body Dysmorphic Disorder -- 4.2 Bigorexia -- 4.3 The Myth of the Idol -- 5. The Complex Relationship between the Mind, the Body, and the Contemporary Environment -- Part III: The Hypermodern Contradictory Relationship with Food: A Specific Analysis -- 6. Contemporary Social Trends Regarding Food: Paradoxes and Food Tribes -- 6.1 An Overview of Contemporary Social Trends -- 6.2 A Focus on the Food Tribes of Purity -- 7. A New Disorder: Orthorexia -- 7.1 Orthorexia -- 7.2 New Perspectives on Eating Disorders -- 8. Contemporary Perspectives on Anorexia -- 9. Nervous Bulimia and Binge Eating Disorder: A Contemporary Overview -- 9.1 Nervous Bulimia -- 9.2 Binge Eating -- 10. Contemporary Perspectives on Obesity -- 10.1 Obesity: A Contemporary Overview -- 10.2 Obesity and Identity -- 10.3 Obesity and Gender -- Part IV: Which Possible Horizons? Some Final Considerations -- 11. Body Image, Narcissisms, and Depression -- 11.1 Affects and Healthy Detachment -- 11.2 The Importance of Communication in the narcissistic Era -- 11.3 Healthy Relationships -- 12. A Global Process of Psycho-Bodily Development.
Summary:
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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