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 Hyper Modern Era -- 1.1 The Hypermodern Concept of The Body: Anthropological Implications -- 1.2 Miguel Benasayag's Concepts of Functioning and Existence -- 1.3 The Existential Views of Contemporary Humanity -- 1.4 An Era Metaphorically "Crossed by Water" -- 1.5 The Body without Decency: A Contemporary Phenomena -- Part II: Brain Without Body, Body Without Brain, and Contemporary Body Image Disorders -- 2. Body Schema, Body Image, and Hypermodern Alterations -- 2.1 Brain without Body: Abstractization -- 2.2 Mechanization -- 3. Alexithymia and Somatizations -- 3.1 Somatization and Alexithymia -- 3.2 Deterritorialization -- 4. The Myth of the Perfect Body Image, Body Dysmorphic Disorder, and Bigorexia -- 4.1 Body Dysmorphic Disorder -- 4.2 Bigorexia -- 4.3 The Myth of the Idol -- 5. The Complex Relationship between the Mind, the Body, and the Contemporary Environment -- Part III: The Hypermodern Contradictory Relationship with Food: A Specific Analysis -- 6. Contemporary Social Trends Regarding Food: Paradoxes and Food Tribes -- 6.1 An Overview of Contemporary Social Trends -- 6.2 A Focus on the Food Tribes of Purity -- 7. A New Disorder: Orthorexia -- 7.1 Orthorexia -- 7.2 New Perspectives on Eating Disorders -- 8. Contemporary Perspectives on Anorexia -- 9. Nervous Bulimia and Binge Eating Disorder: A Contemporary Overview -- 9.1 Nervous Bulimia -- 9.2 Binge Eating -- 10. Contemporary Perspectives on Obesity -- 10.1 Obesity: A Contemporary Overview -- 10.2 Obesity and Identity -- 10.3 Obesity and Gender -- Part IV: Which Possible Horizons? Some Final Considerations -- 11. Body Image, Narcissisms, and Depression -- 11.1 Affects and Healthy Detachment -- 11.2 The Importance of Communication in the narcissistic Era -- 11.3 Healthy Relationships -- 12. A Global Process of Psycho-Bodily Development. Read More