Psychology in the Bathroom [electronic resource] /
Haslam, Nick.author.
Presenting cutting-edge science in a playful manner, this exploration of a topic that has been veiled by taboo, the psychology of excretion, surveys an assortment of embarrassing processes, shameful disorders and disgusting habits taking the reader on a tour of the history and literature of elimination.
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Cover; Contents; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; Excretion and psychoanalysis; Excretion in psychology; A new psychology of excretion?; An overview of the book; 2 The Irritable Bowel; The psychology of the bowels; Irritable bowel syndrome; The gut's brains; Conclusions; 3 The Nervous Bladder; Urination and the nervous system; Urinary inhibition; Incontinence; Urinary perversion; Conclusions; 4 On Flatulence; The physiology of flatulence; The psychoanalysis of flatulence; Aerophagia; Flatulence and emotion; Defensive flatulence; Enjoyment of flatulence; Flatulence and gender
Conclusions5 The Anal Character; Post-Freudian developments; Applying the anal character; Research on the anal character; The return of the anal character; Conclusions; 6 Potty Mouth; The nature of swearing; Scatological swearing; Who swears (and who cares)?; Swearing and gender; Swearing and culture; Functions of swearing; Coprolalia; Coprophagia; Conclusions; 7 Toilet Graffiti; History; The content of latrinalia; The form of latrinalia; Influences on latrinalia; Theories of latrinalia; Conclusions; 8 Seat Up or Down?; Toilet-seat behaviour; The rhythm of toileting
Strategies of toilet-seat positioningEvaluating the strategies; Is that all there is?; Seat positioning as a moral issue; Conclusions; References; Index
Presenting cutting-edge science in a playful manner, this exploration of a topic that has been veiled by taboo, the psychology of excretion, surveys an assortment of embarrassing processes, shameful disorders and disgusting habits taking the reader on a tour of the history and literature of elimination.
Psychology.
Health psychology.
Personality.
Social psychology.
Sex (Psychology).
Gender expression.
Self.
Identity (Psychology).
Emotions.
Popular Science in Psychology.
Health Psychology.
Personality and Social Psychology.
Gender Studies.
Self and Identity.
Emotion.