Embodiment: Clinical, Critical and Cultural Perspectives on Health and Illness

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 modelExamines the clinical significance of people's experience of ‘being a body’ through a broad range of health and illness experiences, in particular whe