This work provides a range of possibilities, suggestions and manifestos for the importance of the body to the discipline of psychology. Each contributor invites us to consider certain questions and possibilites of psychological and social life that the body opens for revaluation.

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION The Body′s Psychology and Psychology′s Body - Henderikus J Stam Disciplinary and Extra-Disciplinary Examinations PART TWO: SOCIAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL BODIES Displays and Fragments - Alan Radley Embodiment and the Configuration of Social Worlds Establishing Embodiment in Psychology - Edward E Sampson Mind as Body Moving in Space - Harry J G Kempen Bringing the Body Back into Self-Psychology PART THREE: SEXED AND GENDERED BODIES `Loving the Computer′ - Elizabeth A Wilson Cognition, Embodiment and the Influencing Machine Feminism, Psychology and Matters of the Body - Betty M Bayer and Kareen Ror Malone Situated Knowledges of Personal Embodiment - Mary Brown Parlee Transgender Activists′ and Psychological Theorists′ Perspectives on `Sex′ and `Gender′ Habitus - Caterina Pizanias From the Inside Out and the Outside In PART FOUR: SICK AND HEALING BODIES The Body as a Selfing Device - Cor Baerveldt and Paul Voestermans The Case of Anorexia Nervosa The Psychology and Management of Pain - Robert Kugelmann Gate Control as Theory and Symbol From Dysappearance to Hyperappearance - Arthur W Frank Sliding Boundaries of Illness and Bodies