From Soma to Symbol: Psychosomatic Conditions and Transformative Experience (CIPS (Confederation of Independent Psychoanalytic Societies) Boundaries of Psychoanalysis)
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- 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.
- Copyright:
- 2016
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9780429914188
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780429475184, 9781782201274, 9781782201274, 9780367102678, 9780367102678
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Date of Addition:
- 06/22/20
- Copyrighted By:
- to Phyllis L. Sloate for the edited collection and to the individual authors for their contributions
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Psychology
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- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
- Edited by:
- Phyllis L. Sloate