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
3. Alexithymia and Somatizations
3.1 Somatization and Alexithymia
4. The Myth of the Perfect Body Image, Body Dysmorphic Disorder, and Bigorexia
4.1 Body Dysmorphic Disorder
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
7.2 New Perspectives on Eating Disorders
8. Contemporary Perspectives on Anorexia
9. Nervous Bulimia and Binge Eating Disorder: A Contemporary Overview
10. Contemporary Perspectives on Obesity
10.1 Obesity: A Contemporary Overview
10.2 Obesity and Identity
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.
