The Body and Psychology

Henderikus Stam is Professor of Psychology at the University of Calgary. He is the founding and current editor of the journal Theory and Psychology and is a former President of Division 24 (Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology) of the American Psychological Association as well as a former President of the International Society for Theoretical Psychology. He has published widely and his research focuses mainly on the history of psychology and the theoretical foundations of psychology.

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION The Body's Psychology and Psychology's Body - Henderikus J Stam Disciplinary and Extra-Disciplinary Examinations PART TWO: SOCIAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL BODIES Displays and Fragments - Alan Radley Embodiment and the Configuration of Social Worlds Establishing Embodiment in Psychology - Edward E Sampson Mind as Body Moving in Space - Harry J G Kempen Bringing the Body Back into Self-Psychology PART THREE: SEXED AND GENDERED BODIES `Loving the Computer' - Elizabeth A Wilson Cognition, Embodiment and the Influencing Machine Feminism, Psychology and Matters of the Body - Betty M Bayer and Kareen Ror Malone Situated Knowledges of Personal Embodiment - Mary Brown Parlee Transgender Activists' and Psychological Theorists' Perspectives on `Sex' and `Gender' Habitus - Caterina Pizanias From the Inside Out and the Outside In PART FOUR: SICK AND HEALING BODIES The Body as a Selfing Device - Cor Baerveldt and Paul Voestermans The Case of Anorexia Nervosa The Psychology and Management of Pain - Robert Kugelmann Gate Control as Theory and Symbol From Dysappearance to Hyperappearance - Arthur W Frank Sliding Boundaries of Illness and Bodies