Body memory, metaphor and movement

✍ Scribed by Sabine C. Koch & Thomas Fuchs & Michela Summa & Cornelia Muller

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 476
• Series: Advances in consciousness research 84
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Body Memory, Metaphor and Movement is an interdisciplinary volume with contributions from philosophers, cognitive scientists, and movement therapists. Part one provides the phenomenologically grounded definition of body memory with its different typologies. Part two follows the aim to integrate phenomenology, conceptual metaphor theory, and embodiment approaches from the cognitive sciences for the development of appropriate empirical methods to address body memory. Part three inquires into the forms and effects of therapeutic work with body memory, based on the integration of theory, empirical findings, and clinical applications. It focuses on trauma treatment and the healing power of movement. The book also contributes to metaphor theory, application and research, and therefore addresses metaphor researchers and linguists interested in the embodied grounds of metaphor. Thus, it is of particular interest for researchers from the cognitive sciences, social sciences, and humanities as well as clinical practitioners

✦ Table of Contents

Content: pt. 1. Contributions from phenomenology --
pt. 2. Contributions from cognitive sciences --
pt. 3. Contributions from embodied therapies --
pt. 4. Conclusions.

✦ Subjects

Muscular sense. Movement, Psychology of. Body schema. Memory. Metaphor. PSYCHOLOGY -- Physiological Psychology. Psychology.