Description
Book SynopsisThis revised edition of Psychosomatics Today presents a thorough introduction to the different international schools of psychosomatics, written by leading professionals, and includes three new chapters on current practice.
As well as exploring key psychosomatic topics, focusing primarily on the Paris School, the Latin American School, the American school of psychosomatic medicine, and the Kleinian approach to the soma, this revised edition adds a chapter about the German School of Psychosomatics, expands upon allergic object relations, and tackles the contemporary topic of overflow in theory and clinical practice. Spanning a variety of theoretical approaches, the book is illustrated by many clinical case studies which provide an engaging, holistic picture of the field, including adolescent and child therapies.
Psychosomatics Today will be of great interest to psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists in practice and in training, students of
Table of Contents
Introduction; 1. Overflows in Theory and Clinical Practice; 2. Thoughts on the Paris School of Psychosomatics; 3. The Mysterious Leap of the Somatic into the Psyche; 4. Psychosomatics: The Role of the Unconscious Phantasy; 5. A Rash of a Different Colour: Somatopsychic Eruptions from the Other Side; 6. Adolescence: The Body as a Scenario for Non-Symbolized Dramas; 7. Psychosomatics Conditions in Contemporary Psychoanalysis; 8. Particular Vissicitudes of the Drive Confronted with Mourning: Sublimation and Somatization; 9. The Place of Affect in the Psychosomatic Economy; 10. The Capacity to Say No and Psychosomatic Disorders in Childhood; 11. Symbolism, Symbolization, and Trauma in Psychosomatic Theory; 12. From Physical Pain to an "Interactive Image": Notes on the Second Treatment Period of a Psychosomatic and Depressive Patient; 13. The Allergic Object Relation; Afterword
