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Book SynopsisThe relationship between psyche and some is extremely important from a psychoanalytic theoretical and clinical perspective. This book reflects the cutting edge intersection of analytic theory, semiotics, biology, and psycholinguistics.
Trade ReviewThis is a lively conversation among top clinical thinkers on the terrain in which Freud intervened so incisively. Here, readers who join the conversation of Drs. Muller and Tillman, et. al. will find the most important voices in philosophy and the clinic speaking with fresh insight on contemporary aspects of embodiment. A must for anyone interested in the somatic underpinnings of psychoanalysis. -- Stuart Taylor, M.D., professor, Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, College of Physicians and Surgeons, and the Department of English an
This extraordinary collection of papers provides a brilliant and illuminating study of the crucial and oftentimes unacknowledged importance of the body in the psychoanalytic process. The collection encompasses a wide range of perspectives and will be of immense value to psychoanalysts and other contemporary thinkers and clinical practitioners. -- M. Guy Thompson, Ph.D., training and supervising analyst, Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California; author, The Ethic of Honesty: The Fundamental
This volume explores the mind-body continuum with wonderful depth and breadth, encompassing the most up-to-date and thoughtful explorations of the mind-body connection in relation to self and other. From Freud through Chaos Theory, the authors present many cogent theoretical and clinical examples of how the mind-body interplay affects character and pathology. A must-read for all psychoanalysts and psychodynamic thinkers and practitioners. -- Rona Knight, Ph.D., founding member, Berkshire Psychoanalytic Institute; assistant professor, Boston University Medical Center
Finding and re-finding, forgetting and remembering, the body appears to be the ongoing task of each psychoanalytic generation. Despite Freud's admonition that the first ego is a body ego, psychoanalytic thought has often failed to deeply reflect on this insight. This wide-ranging collection of essays addresses clinical, conceptual, and theoretical perspectives on the body in psychoanalysis with scholarship, insight and humor. It will serve as a touchstone for thinking about how the lived bodies of therapist and patient contact each other in depth psychotherapy. -- William A. MacGillivray Ph.D, ABPP, editor, Psychologist-Psychoanalyst
Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 The Body in Psychoanalysis and the Origin of Fantasy Chapter 3 That Subtle Knot: The Body and Metaphor Chapter 4 The Concept of "Superego": Another Look (Up to Par or a Hole in One?) Chapter 5 The Lived Body: From Freud to Merleau-Ponty and Contemporary Psychoanalysis Chapter 6 Identificatory Channels in Psychosis: Mimicry as Adhesion and Mockery as Differentiation Chapter 7 Containment and the Use of Skin Chapter 8 The Transition from Bodies to Words: A Clinical Illustration Chapter 9 Perspectives on Embodiment: From Symptom to Enactment and from Enactment to Sexual Misconduct
