Relational Perspectives on the Body

In a book "destined to influence the practice of psychoanalysis as much by its therapeutic 'rightness' as by its conceptual persuasiveness" (Philip M. Bromberg, Ph.D.), contemporary relational theorists devise original technical responses to the multifac

Contributors

ix

Acknowledgments

xi

Preface

xv

Introduction

xix

Lewis Aron

I. Relational Constructions Of The Body

The Clinical Body and the Reflexive Mind

3

(36)

Lewis Aron

Psychic Envelopes and Sonorous Baths: Siting the Body in Relational Theory and Clinical Practice

39

(26)

Adrienne Harris

Polyglot Bodies: Thinking Through the Relational

65

(32)

Muriel Dimen

II. Linking The Mind And Body

The Embodiment of Desire: Relinking the Bodymind Within the Analytic Dyad

97

(20)

Harriet Kimble Wrye

The Body-Mind: Psychopathology of Its Ownership

117

(22)

Linda Gunsberg

Isaac Tylim

III. The Material Body In The Relational Matrix

Cancer as a Factitious Disorder (Munchausen Syndrome) Related to Body Self-Image and Object Relations in a Borderline Patient

139

(34)

Kerstin Kupfermann

Dissociation and Physical Difference: The Case of the Transformed ``Short'' Person

173

(18)

Barbara K. Eisold

Breast Cancer in the Analyst: Body Lessons

191

(24)

Barbara Pizer

IV. The Place Of Bodily Experience In The Psychoanalytic Process

Listening to the Body: Somatic Representations of Dissociated Memory

215

(22)

Karen Hopenwasser

``Mama, Why Don't Your Feet Tocuch the Ground?'': Staying with the Body and the Healing Moment in Psychoanalysis

237

(26)

Tamsin Looker

Re-membering the Body: A Psychoanalytic Study of Presence and Absence of the Lived Body

263

(24)

Ron Balamuth

Psychic Elaboration of Musculoskeletal Back Pain: Ellen's Story

287

(36)

Frances Sommer Anderson

Index

323

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