The Embodied Self: Dimensions, Coherence and Disorders

✍ Scribed by Thomas Fuchs (editor), Heribert Sattel (editor), Peter Henningsen (editor)

• Publisher: Schattauer
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 352
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The Embodied Self
Dimensions, Coherence and Disorders

Progress of scientific research into the foundations of human self-experience is fascinating, but it also poses serious questions:
Is the self more than an illusion created by the brain?
What role does the body play for self-experience and interSubjectivity?
What can pathologies of the self tell us about the constitution of normal self-awareness?
What consequences does this have for our concepts and therapy of psychiatric and psychosomatic disorders?
* How may the results of neurobiological, psychological, philosophical and clinical research on the self and its disorders be related to each other?
These and other key questions are dealt with in this volume which offers cutting-edge research in an expanding interdisciplinary area. It is based on the joint European project DISCOS ("Disorders and Coherence of the Embodied Self") which unites philosophers, neuroscientists, psychologists and psychiatrists who are among the leading researchers in their respective field.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Contents
Part I Philosophy: What makes up a Self? Self Coherenceand its Origins
1 Minimal Self and Narrative Self
1.1 A Distinction in Need of Refinement
1.2 Comment: The Minimal Self is a Social Self
1.3 Reply: … Even in the Absence of Social Interaction?
2 Body Perception and Self-Consciousness
2.1 Full-Body Illusions and Minimal Phenomenal Selfhood
2.2 Comment: Minimal Conditions for the Simplest Form of Self-Consciousness
3 Radical Enactivism and Narrative Practice
3.1 Implications for Psychopathology
3.2 Comment: Radical Enactivism and Inter-Corporeal Affectivity
4 Comment: A Common Ground Approach to Selfhood
Part II Neuroscience: Brain, Consciousness and Self
5 Neuroscientific Approach to Intersubjectivity
5.1 Embodied Simulation and its Role in Intersubjectivity
5.2 Comment: Conscious Mirroring?
6 Brain Function in Disorders of Consciousness
6.1 Is There Anybody in There?
6.2 Comment: Me in Here
7 Cognitive and Bodily Selves
7.1 How Do They Interact Following Brain Lesion?
7.2 Comment: A Network for Maintaining Self-Body Coherence
Part III Developmental Psychology: Is There a Self Without Selves? Development of Self and Intersubjectivity
8 Contingency Perception
8.1 Contingent Parental Reactivity in Early Socio-Emotional Development
8.2 Comment: Explaining Early Social Interactions
8.3 Reply: Meaning, Subjectivity and Coordination
9 Me and Mine in Early Development
10 Autism: A Disorder in the Development of Self
11 Understanding Intersubjectivity: Enactive and Embodied
11.1 Non-Representational Intersubjectivity
11.2 Comment 1: Stay Cognitive!
11.3 Comment 2: Enaction versus Representation – an Opinion Piece
Part IV Psychiatry and Psychosomatic Medicine: How to Treat a Self. Self Disorders and Their Therapy
12 Phenomenology of Self-Disorders
12.1 The Spectrum of Schizophrenia
12.2 Comment: The Self in the Spectrum – Notes from a Borderland
13 Mentalization and Structural Functioning: Therapeutic Implications
13.1 The Impact of Structural Functioning for the Embodied Self
13.2 Mentalization: Understanding Borderline Personality Disorder
13.3 Comment 1: Wanted – Autochtonous BPD Neurocircuitry
13.4 Comment 2: In Search of a Better Treatment for Fragmented Self
14 Boundaries and Common Grounds: Aspects of Integration
14.1 Disordered Self: Any Chance for Therapeutic Integration?
14.2 Comment: Disorders of the Self – Multi- or Interdisciplinarity?
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