Bodily self-consciousness and its relation with health
https://doi.org/10.21626/j-chr/2020-1(22)/1
Abstract
This article is devoted to the issue of understanding bodily self-consciousness in the health context through the correlation between body and consciousness. Bodily self-consciousness and body consciousness are new terms in health context without a direct and validated definition to health area. Some contemporary neuroscientific researches point out to an embodied mind and the hypothesis that the explanation of how this process happens could be the key to explain somatoform diseases. Many disorders of bodily self are shaped by both neurological and social factors. The social cognitive neuroscience approach is needed to fully understand the bodily self and its disturbances. The awareness of bodily self-consciousness, which means the congruence between body image and real body, its features, and process, could contribute to elaboration and development of mind, conscious, psychological and behavioral characteristics of the human being throughout this contact between body and world.
About the Authors
G. . Azevedo
Kursk State Medical University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
J. S. Filippovich
Kursk State Medical University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
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Azevedo G., Filippovich J.S. Bodily self-consciousness and its relation with health. The Collection of Humanitarian Studies. 2020;(1):6-12. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.21626/j-chr/2020-1(22)/1
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