Expression of the Psychosomatic Body from a Phenomenological Perspective

Jennifer Bullington's research is concerned mainly with issues surrounding the theoretical understanding of psychosomatic conditions (mind – body problem) and how the care, treatment and rehabilitation of patients with complicated psychosomatic symptoms and diseases can be improved. Her doctoral dissertation from 1999 (published as well in book form) is a systematized philosophical analysis of psychosomatic theories, including a presentation of my own alternative phenomenological theory of psychosomatics inspired by the work of the French phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty

• Introduction.- Chapter 1. The Psychosomatic Problematic.- Chapter 2. The Lived Body.- Chapter 3. The Meaning of Meaning.- Chapter 4. The Lived Body (Phenomenology of Perception) and the Flesh (The Visible and the Invisible).- Chapter 5. The Phenomenological Psychosomatic Theory.- Chapter 6. Health and Illness and Holistic Health.- Chapter 7. Conclusions.