Somatization and embodiment

Datos Bibliográficos

ID21592117
AutoresCarlos Morujão (0000-0001-9943-8229, Universidade Católica Portuguesa/Portuguese Catholic University), Ângela Leite (0000-0003-0560-1756, Universidade Católica Portuguesa/Portuguese Catholic University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2025
Volumen38
Número4
Páginas1318-1345
Fecha de publicación2025-05-19
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaPhilosophical Psychology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0951-5089 • E-ISSN: 1465-394X
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09515089.2023.2241498
OpenAlexW4385345755
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas57

This paper aims to explain the concepts of somatization and embodiment, clarifying their meaning and establishing points of contact and differentiation between them. To this end, a review of the concepts was carried out both in the psychological and the philosophical literature. We claim that a psychological account of somatization of psychical processes (whether of a pathological nature or not) must take into account the basic anthropological feature of human beings that consists in the fact that they are psycho-physical units. Philosophical literature on the subject can be of some help to psychologists (we also claim), since it enlightens the fact that there is no lived experience of the world and of others, at least in the so-called normal cases, where the abovementioned unity is not immediately present

Cognitive psychology · Cognitive science · Epistemology · Mental health · Psychotherapist · Somatization · Computer Science · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments · Social Representations and Identity