{"product_id":"minding-the-body-9780415718608","title":"Minding the Body","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eMinding the Body: The Body in Psychoanalysis and Beyond outlines the value of a psychoanalytic approach to understanding the body and its vicissitudes and for addressing these in the context of psychoanalytic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. The chapters cover a broad but esoteric range of subjects that are not often discussed within psychoanalysis such as the function of breast augmentation surgery, the psychic origins of hair, the use made of the analyst's toilet, transsexuality and the connection between dermatological conditions and necrophilic fantasies. The book also reaches beyond the couch' to consider the nature of reality television makeover show.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book is based on the \u003cb\u003eAlessandra Lemma's \u003c\/b\u003eextensive clinical experience as a psychoanalyst and psychologist working in a range of public and private health care settings with patients for whom the body is the primary presenting problem or who have made unconscious use of the body to communicate their psychic pain.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Lemma has become one of the modern leaders in psychoanalysis. Her contribution to understanding this most fundamental of psychoanalytic concerns – our relationship to our bodies – has been immense and is growing. This book is an essential source of inspiration for clinicians to help them listen to and hear their patients’ deepest concerns more clearly. An extraordinary achievement.’\u003cb\u003e– Peter Fonagy\u003c\/b\u003e, Freud Memorial Professor of Psychoanalysis and Head of the Research Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, University College London, UK\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘In this insightful and innovative book Alessandra Lemma revisits and explores further some of the subjects she considered in \u003ci\u003eUnder the Skin\u003c\/i\u003e…. The author is at her fluent best as she examines how we ascribe meaning to experience through our bodies, and attempts to illustrate how the analyst can help patients re-integrate mind and body… This is an innovative approach to a fascinating subject. I defy any book browser to peruse its tantalising chapter titles and not want to read the whole book. \u003ci\u003eMinding the Body\u003c\/i\u003e is a must read.’ – \u003cb\u003eAntonino Ferro\u003c\/b\u003e, President of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society and Consultant Associate Editor of the \u003ci\u003eInternational Journal of Psychoanalysis\u003c\/i\u003e. He is a training and supervising analyst in the Italian Psychoanalytic Society, the American Psychoanalytic Association and the International Psychoanalytical Association.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Lemma has become one of the modern leaders in psychoanalysis. Her contribution to understanding this most fundamental of psychoanalytic concerns – our relationship to our bodies – has been immense and is growing. This book is an essential source of inspiration for clinicians to help them listen to and hear their patients’ deepest concerns more clearly. An extraordinary achievement.’\u003cb\u003e– Peter Fonagy\u003c\/b\u003e, Freud Memorial Professor of Psychoanalysis and Head of the Research Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, University College London, UK\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘In this insightful and innovative book Alessandra Lemma revisits and explores further some of the subjects she considered in \u003ci\u003eUnder the Skin\u003c\/i\u003e…. The author is at her fluent best as she examines how we ascribe meaning to experience through our bodies, and attempts to illustrate how the analyst can help patients re-integrate mind and body… This is an innovative approach to a fascinating subject. I defy any book browser to peruse its tantalising chapter titles and not want to read the whole book. \u003ci\u003eMinding the Body\u003c\/i\u003e is a must read.’ – \u003cb\u003eAntonino Ferro\u003c\/b\u003e, President of the Italian Psychoanalytic Society and Consultant Associate Editor of the \u003ci\u003eInternational Journal of Psychoanalysis\u003c\/i\u003e. He is a training and supervising analyst in the Italian Psychoanalytic Society, the American Psychoanalytic Association and the International Psychoanalytical Association.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCampbell,\u003c\/em\u003e Preface. Introduction When the Body Speaks. Envy and the Maternal Body: The Psychodynamics of Cosmetic Surgery. Whose Skin is it Anyway? Some Reflections on the Psychic Function of Necrophilic Fantasies. An Order of Pure Decision: Growing up in a Virtual World and the Adolescent's Experience of Being-in-a-Body. Present Without Past: The Disruption of Temporal Integration in a Case of Transsexuality. The Body One Has and the Body One is: The Transsexual’s Need to be Seen. Trauma and the Body: A psychoanalytic Reading of Almodóvar’s \u003ci\u003eThe Skin I Live In. \u003c\/i\u003eThe Body of the Analyst and the Analytic Setting: Reflections on the Embodied Setting and the Symbiotic Transference. Rapunzel Revisited\u003cb\u003e: \u003c\/b\u003eUntangling the Unconscious Meaning of Hair. Off the Couch, Into the Toilet: Exploring the Psychic Uses of the Analyst’s Toilet. Entrepreneurs of the Self: Some Psychoanalytic Reflections on the Psychic and Social Functions of Reality TV Makeover Shows. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018187473239,"sku":"9780415718608","price":42.74,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780415718608.jpg?v=1750775947","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/minding-the-body-9780415718608","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}