Body Experience

A. The Significance of Body Experience.- Body Experience: A Neglected Dimension in Medicine.- Psychoanalysis and the Body.- Body Schema and Body Self.- Sensation and Perception of Pain.- Skin and Body Experience.- B. Body Experience in Therapy.- Body Experience and Alienation: Psychoanalytically Oriented Concentrative Movement Therapy as an Introduction to Psychotherapy for Psychosomatic Patients.- Body Therapeutic Techniques in Disease-Oriented Psychoanalytic Group Therapy with Asthma Patients.- Exercises in Concentrative Body Perception: A Psychophysiological Therapy Technique.- C. Sex-Specific Body Experience.- Body Experience of Men with Prostatosis.- Male Body Image.- Fluor Albus: How Doctors and Patients React to a Body Symptom.- The Role of Body Experience in Women's Desire for Children and During Pregnancy, Birth and the Time after Delivery.- Infertility: Injury and Challenge.- Body Complaints Among Recovered Genital Cancer Patients and Their Partners.- D. Measuring Body Experience and Body Complaints.- Psychological Research into Body Experience: Models and Methods.- Results Obtained with a Body Experience Questionnaire.- The Body and Its Complaints: A Review of Findings Using the Giessen Subjective Complaints List.- Body Complaints in Children from 8 to 15 Years of Age.

Prof. Dr. Elmar Brähler, geb. 1946, ist Leiter der Abteilung für Medizinische Psychologie und Medizinische Soziologie der Universität Leipzig und u.a. Mitglied im Rat für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsdaten.