Publisher's Synopsis
This is the first book to explore the idea of embodiment across a wide range of clinical contexts. Adopting a critical and cultural perspective, the book stresses the importance of understanding people through their lived experiences and constructions of their own body.
The book:- Challenges both the mind-body dichotomy and the biopsychosocial model
- Examines the clinical significance of people's experience of 'being a body' through a broad range of health and illness experiences, in particular when the body is distressed, diseased, disordered, disabled or dismembered
- Provides insight into the physical and emotional experiences of individuals through its empathetic style
