From Soma to Symbol: Psychosomatic Conditions and Transformative Experience
Author:   Phyllis L. Sloate
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:  

9780367102678


Pages:   288
Publication Date:   14 June 2019
Format:   Hardback
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From Soma to Symbol: Psychosomatic Conditions and Transformative Experience


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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.

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Author:   Phyllis L. Sloate
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.690kg
ISBN:  

9780367102678


ISBN 10:   0367102676
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   14 June 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Series Editor’s Preface , A tale of two theories , Non-mentalizing and non-symbolizing psychic functions and central sensitization in psychosomatic disorders , Just do it! Surgery as psychosomatic action , Psychosomatic events: self-care as technology of the self , When words are unspeakable: a bridge beyond the silence , Psychosomatic illness in a claustro-agoraphobic patient , Plight of the imposter: the embodied transference and countertransference in the analysis of a woman with a congenital deformity , The realization of meaning: superego analysis and psychosomatic symptoms

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