From Soma to Symbol: Psychosomatic Conditions and Transformative Experience - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1782201270 ISBN 13 : 9781782201274

Editeur : Karnac Books, 2016

Synopsis

This book traces the theoretical history of psychosomatics in psychoanalysis, and with it the ways that psychoanalytically-trained clinicians have tried to understand and treat patients with complex psychosomatic symptoms. It offers a rethinking of the mind-body relationship in psychoanalysis, eschewing past dichotomies between the psychological and the corporeal, and today's either-or distinctions between symbolizing and non-symbolizing patients. Theoretical and clinical issues are considered from a broad and integrative perspective. Psychosomatic patients' best interests are served neither by an indiscriminate embrace of dazzling new findings, nor by discarding established ways of understanding them. This volume exemplifies an approach that takes advantage of the rich history of the past as well as exciting new work in the neurosciences. The opening historical chapter delineates the evolution of the field of psychoanalytic psychosomatics.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Phyllis L. Sloate, PhD, FIPA, is a training and supervising analyst at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR) and the Contemporary Freudian Society (CFS). She is also faculty and supervising analyst at the Westchester Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (WCSPP) and at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. She has served as the Chair of the APA's Psychosomatic Discussion Group since 2006, and leads the New York Psychosomatic Study Group. In 2011 she was invited to present the annual C. Philip Wilson Memorial Lecture at the Psychoanalytic Association of New York (PANY) in appreciation for her contributions to the field of psychosomatics. She has also edited and contributed to a recent volume on psychosomatics for the journal series 'Psychoanalytic Inquiry', and she is an invited contributor to Graeme Taylor's special issue on psychosomatics for the 'Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry'.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Karnac Books
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1782201270
• ISBN 13: 9781782201274
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Éditeur: Sloate Phyllis L.
• Coordonnées du fabricant: BOOKS etc..; cs@booksetc.co.uk; ; BOOKS etc.; Aldershot; Royaume-Uni
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