Body Talk Looking and Being Looked at in

An increasing number of patients in psychotherapy, male and female alike, express anxieties and obsessive concerns about their bodies--thinness, facial features, being toned, or other aspects of their appearance. Less concerned with issues of gender and s

Janice S. Lieberman lectures at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Preface

ix

Acknowledgments

xiii

I. THE POWER OF LOOKS

The Visual Ego

3

(14)

On Looking and Being Looked At, Seeing and Being Seen

17

(26)

II. DEVELOPMENTAL ISSUES

Gaze and the Development of Body Narcissism

43

(40)

A Developmental Perspective on the Mirror

83

(26)

III. LOOKING AND BEING LOOKED AT IN THE CLINICAL PROCESS

The Therapist's Rush to Metaphor

109

(36)

Working with Women Obsessed with Thinness

145

(26)

To See or Not to See

171

(28)

One Therapist's Countertransference

199

(20)

IV. APPLIED PSYCHOANALYSIS

The Artist as Spectator and Spectacle

219

(36)

Visual Themes in Film and Literature

255

(26)

Vision in the Therapeutic Encounter

279

(2)

References

281

(18)

Index

299

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