Body Image History

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When did the concept of body image first come about and who is responsible?

-- J.M.G. (livelife320@yahoo.com), April 19, 2004

Answers

A search in titles for "body image" in PsycInfo turned up these items as the earliest:

Lhermitte, J. (1940). De l'image corporelle et ses deformations morbides. /The body image and its pathological modifications. Journal de Psychologie Normale et Pathologique, 37, 321-345.

Lhermitte, J. (1939). El desconocimiento de la imagen corporal. /Lack of recognition of the body image. Revista Medica Peruana, 11, 271-289.

Schilder, P. (1934). Localization of the body image (postural model of the body). Proceedings. Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Diseases, 13, 466-484.

Schilder, P. (1933). Das Koerperbild und die Sozialpsychologie. I. /The image of the body and social psychology. I. Imago (Leipzig), 19, 367-376.

Schilder, P. (1930). Vestibulo-Optik und Koerperschema in der Alkoholhalluzinose. /Vestibularoptical phenomena and the schematic body image during alcohol hallucinosis. Zeitschrift fuer die Gesamte Neurologie und Psychiatrie, 128, 784-791.

Parker, S., & Schilder, P. (1930). Das Koerperschema im Lift. /The schematic body image in the elevator. Zeitschrift fuer die Gesamte Neurologie und Psychiatrie, 128, 777-783.

Prince, M. (1923). A Case of Complete Loss of All Sensory Functions Excepting Hearing but Including Coenesthesis and Visual Images of the Body. Journal of Abnormal Psychology & Social Psychology, 18, 238-243.

A search of the WorldCat from 1920-1940 turns up one book under the key phrase "body image"

Symbolik der menschlichen Gestalt : ein Handbuch zur Menschenkenntnis / Author: Carus, Carl Gustav, 1789-1869.; Lessing, Theodor, Publication: Celle : N. Kampmann, 1925 Document: German : Book

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