Psychoanalytic Publications
Bodies in Treatment:
The Unspoken Dimension
Review:
"Having been intrigued by new theories that connect mind and body, and
puzzled about the body treatments my patients sometimes talk about, I found this
book a revelation. It discloses a startlingly wide range of body-focused
thoughts and practices, extending from the use of unworded representations in
talking treatment to evocative action directly on the body, with illustrations
of many combined treatments between them. There is an especially useful balance
of patient phenomenology and practitioner accounts. What is really an eye-opener
is the variety of rationales and theoretical apparatuses that underpin these
practices, referring to cognitive psychology, recent neurophysiology, the
technology of Yoga and much less familiar, far more radically different ways of
thinking." - Lawrence
Friedman, M.D., Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Weill-Cornell
Medical College
Relational Perspectives on the Body
Review:
"In recent years, psychoanalytic investigation has focused so extensively on the
intersubjective and interrelational that we could lose sight of the importance
of bodily experience and bodily phenomena. In this timely collection,
Aron
and
Anderson have brought together clinicians writing at the leading edge of
psychoanalytic scholarship to examine the place of the body within the intersubjective context. All of us have a psychosomatic potential, and in
Relational Perspectives on the Body psychoanalysis continues to struggle with
the body/mind matrix, the role of the body in self-organization, gender issues
and the body, and the meaning of bodily expressions on the psychoanalytic stage.
This book will be of immense interest not only to psychoanalysts and other
mental health professionals, but to everyone intrigued by the workings of the
psychosoma and the body-mind relationship."
- Joyce McDougall, Ed.D., International Psychoanalytic Association