Body Image and Eating Disorders

Dr. Fabio Gabrielli is a clinical practitioner and Professor of Philosophical Anthropology and Biochemistry at Ludes University of Lugano, Switzerland where he has previously served as Dean. Gabrielli has published over two hundred works including papers on 'Quantum Human and Animal Consciousness' (2011) and 'Considerations on Blood Platelets: A Neuron's Mirror for Mood Disorders?' (2012). Floriana Irtelli is a lecturer at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan. She is a psychoanalyst and psychotherapist. Irtelli also works at the Fatebenefratelli Hospital, Milan, performing research and clinical activities. She has edited collections on Psychosis (2018) and Family Therapy (2019). Her most recent book is about Contemporary Perspectives on Relational Wellness (2018).

'In this ambitious volume, the authors situate eating and body image disorders as pathologies reflecting the crisis of humanity in an increasingly mechanized world. Sweeping through existential and deconstructionist philosophy, anthropology and cultural studies, psychoanalysis and neuroscience, this book offers a unique integration, to be savored across disciplines and time.' Sarah Schoen, The William Alanson White Institute, USA

• Part I. Contemporary Perspectives in Anthropology, Philosophy, and Psychology on the Human Body: An Introductory Overview: 1. The conception of the human body: An evolutionary study from ancient times to the hypermodern era; Part II. Brain Without Body, Body Without Brain, and Contemporary Body Image Disorders: 2. Body schema, body image, and hypermodern alterations; 3. Alexithymia and somatizations; 4. The myth of the perfect body image, body dysmorphic disorder, and bigorexia; 5. The complex relationship between the mind, the body, and the contemporary environment; Part III. A Specific Analysis: The Hypermodern Contradictory Relationship With Food: 6. Contemporary social trends regarding food: paradoxes and food tribes; 7. Orthorexia; 8. Contemporary perspectives on eating disorders; 9. Nervous bulimia and binge eating disorder: A contemporary overview; 10. Contemporary on obesity; Part IV. Which Possible Horizons? Some Final Considerations: 11. Body image, narcissims, and depression; 12. The global process of psycho-bodily development.