Stroke, Body Image, and Self-Representation: Psychoanalytic and Neurological Perspectives

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Foreword
Acknowledgements
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Introduction
1 Body schema
	Cenesthesia
	The invention of body schema
	Body schema and space
	Body schema, action, sense of agency
	Body schema and body image in cognitive neuropsychology
	Body schema and space representation acquisition
	The representation of one’s own body and the bodies of others
	Body schema disorders
		Hemineglect
		Child dyspraxia
		Apraxias
	Body schema disorders and psychopathology
		Asomatognosia
		Somatoparaphrenia
		Anosognosia
		Dyspraxia and personality disorders
		Schizophrenia and body schema disorders
	References
2 Body image
	Wallon: acquiring the notion of one’s own body
	Lhermitte: body image in neurology
	Freud and narcissism
	Schilder, Freud and the libidinal structure of body image
	Lacan, the specular image and the object
	The body in clinical observations of infants and children
	Body image in psychosis
	Body image and bodily pathological alterations
	How to study body image using self-portraits
	The normal self-portrait and its lacks
	The metaphoric value of the mouth and the hands
	References
3 The subjective effects of stroke
	Research methods
	The specificity of brain lesions
	References
4 The psychological effects of stroke in patients without body schema disorders
	Self-portraits
		Missing hands
		Lack of facial features
	Mirrors and the gaze
		Aggressiveness: the others’ image
		Self-image: seeing oneself “like that”
	Self-image and discourse: from I to one, the subject’s subjects
		Subjectivity and enunciation
		From I to one, which verbs?
		Grammatical subjects and ego-images
		Narcissistic injury and recovery
	The paralysed body: absent from discourse, present as a transitional object
	References
5 The psychological effects of stroke in patients with body schema disorders
	Self-portraits
	The patient’s words
	The paralysed body: present in discourse, subject to aggressive manipulations
	Narcissism and body schema disorders
	References
6 Case studies
	Hemineglect and the broken-up body
		Conversation with Mr E
		Self-portraits
	Severe hemineglect, holes in the body, oral cravings
		Hemineglect and orality disorders
		Holes in the body
		The body: a shell that protects the ego
		Mr U and his therapists: aggressiveness and transitivism
	Asomatognosia and orality disorders
		Mr R: “I saw a left arm passing by and I felt like biting it”
		Mr N: “A hand-kissing because I can’t shake your hand”
	The paralysed hand: a mother’s daughter
		Mrs M and her daughter-hand with a double leg
		Mrs C and the daughter left inside her body
		Mrs N and her leaf-daughter
		Mrs S and her daughter-arm stuck in a foetal position
	References
7 Right-hemisphere syndrome: physiopathological hypotheses
	Cognitivist hypotheses
	Right-hemisphere syndrome, image and object
	References
8 Anosognosia
	Anosognosia in everyday life
	Cognitive theories of anosognosia
	Psychological theories of anosognosia
		Anosognosia: a defence against a change in self-image?
		Anosognosia: a méconnaissance systématique?
		Anosognosia: a denial?
		Anosognosia: a repression?
		Anosognosia: the result of a regression to primary narcissism?
	Anosognosia: a structural reading
		Anosognosia in left hemiplegia is not a neurotic méconnaissance
		Anosognosia in left hemiplegia is associated with body image disorders
	Anosognosia, body image and the object
	References
9 Right-hemisphere syndrome and pathological mourning
	References
Conclusion
	References
Index