Lived body

In our company, one with the practice to separate the heart and the body. In psychology, one studies all the same the body as being instruments of the conduits and a support of the identity. The Psychisme builds even body inside.

Various bodies

The neurological body

In the very first days of its life, the Embryon consists of cells which are at the origin of the Peau and of the nervous system (Hectoblaste).
Sigmund Freud, for which “the Me is initially body”, was at the base of the experiments made by neurologists to show that the elements which constitute the skin have a very important representation in the Cortex. Our direction intervenes in the cerebral development of the diagram of our body = constitutive of ego.

The Psychosomatic

Georg Groddeck (the book of the that), psychological German, was 1st to take the man suffering with his physical aspects and psychic, with its personal history, its social environment and cultural.
Sigmund Freud (1895), by studying the women Hysterical S, noticed that there were no internal injuries, whereas they had very important physical symptoms. What means that the body conflicts of psychism in the event of too intense Souffrance.

Concept of attachment

Herlow (1950), ethologist (study of the animals), and Bowlby (English Psychiatrist), carried out experiments with babies monkeys rhesus, because it was thought that the babies stuck to their mother thanks to the Allaitement.
La satisfaction of the Besoin S for food is not essential in the establishment of the bonds between the mother and her baby. The need for contact premium on that of food. It is in these first moments with his/her mother that the child builds the first design of his body.

The body in the development of the child and the self-awareness

In the relation mother-baby, the development of the body and psychism are bound, in the child.
Comme the baby is deprived of word and of autonomy, it is made include/understand by the body. And this design of the body is completely dealt with by the mother, she interprets it and answers it compared to its lived and its desires.
Dès first months of its life, the child with need to be to stimulate by its entourage to develop. All that is done for this period is capital for its identity; that will leave traces Mnésique S, but also on the level of the skin, muscles and emotional system. The pleasant absence of feeling can be at the origin of later pathological behaviors.

Two fundamental concepts

The body Diagram

It is about the representation of the body which is constituted through the physical experiment with the outside world. This experiment is related to the quality of our neurological Système, the physiological feelings and the physical integrity of our body. Information which contributes to the construction of the body diagram comes from source various:

Visual and vestibular Thermal tactile Feelings
(ear)
Muscular
Visceral

The base of the concept of the body diagram is thus neurobiologic. It is the same one for all, and it is worked out gradually with the feelings (in particular touch).

The image of the body

Paul Schilder (German psychiatrist) developed this concept. The Définition that it gives some is: it is the image of our own body which we form in our spirit, the way in which our body even appears to us with us.
L' Image of the body is in charge of affectivity and it is built starting from the memories, of the emotions, the investment of the parents and the close relations. It is in the glance of the other that the child builds an image of him and other as two distinct subjects.
Francoise Dolto speaks about unconscious image, a notion more widened than the image of the body. For it this image is unconscious, single, clean with each one and in charge affectivement of the desires of life and deaths.

The distinction between body diagram and image of the body is very important because these two concepts do not return to the same register of Pensée S.

the body diagram, it is the real body, it is that of which medicine is occupied.
the image of the body, it is the imaginary body and it more particularly interests psychology and the psychoanalysis.

One speaks about failure of the body diagram in all the central nervous system disorders like the Dyspraxie (difficulties of carrying out coordinated movements) and the Dyslexie (disorder in the capacity with reading and writing). The attack of the image of the body would give psychosomatic demonstrations like skin diseases.

Touch

There are 2 directions with the word Toucher:

Contact, tactile, physically
Feeling, emotional

In fact the direction appears earliest (3rd week of the fetal life) and which is the last to disappear.

The Skin

Wrap border between oneself and the others, it is a place of exchanges between the interior and outside. The tactile experiment is active and passive (reciprocity of the tactile contact). One cannot about it live without being touched, and there does not exist human being without skin. If 1/7 of the skin is destroyed, the human being dies (for example badly burned persons). It is by its intermediary that the child will be able to be discovered. The skin is the seat of very differentiated sensitivities.

At the physiological level: skin with the brain

When the hands touch the skin, of the million sensory cells send their message towards the Spinal-cord. The nerve impulse goes up to the cortex, crosses there the Thalamus (sorting office of the feelings), goes down towards the Hypothalamus which controls the secretion of Hormone S of the pleasure.

Functions and qualities of the “me-skin”

It is the skin in its incidence on psychism according to Didier Anzieu. The identity of a person is not built without a report/ratio with the other which passes by the body mediation.

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