When the Body Speaks

<p>This book is based on the work done by a group of British and Italian psychoanalysts who have been meeting twice yearly since 2003 to study clinically the relationship between the mind and the body of their patients.</p><p>The analytical dyad became the focus of a dialectical movement between body and mind and between subject and object. Containing contributions from a range of distinguished British and Italian analysts, this book covers such key topics as somatic symptoms, the embodied unconscious, bodily expressions of affect, sexuality, violence, self-harm, suicide attempts, hypochondria, hysteria, anorexia and bulimia, and splits and fragmentation associated with the body. The theoretical understanding is inspired by various psychoanalytic theoreticians, including Freud, M. Klein, Winnicott and Bion and their theories on sexuality, infantile sexuality, libido, aggressiveness, death instinct, Oedipus complex and mother–child relationship. </p><p>Offering new advances in theoretical thinking and practical applications for clinical work, this book will be essential for all psychoanalysts and mental health clinicians interested in understanding serious mental disturbance that is represented in the body.</p> <p>Introduction </p><p>Ronny Jaffè and Donald Campbell</p><p>Chapter 1</p><p>Traces of the Early Relationship in the Corpus of Freud’s Work: A re-reading</p><p>Giuseppina Antinucci</p><p>Chapter 2</p><p>The "Psychoanalytical" Body and its Clinical Implication</p><p>Sarantis Thanopulos</p><p>Chapter 3 </p><p>Transmission of Somatic and Sensory States in the Psychoanalytical Relationship</p><p>Ronny Jaffè</p><p>Chapter 4 </p><p>Perfume</p><p>Maria Colazzo Hendriks</p><p>Chapter 5 </p><p>Access to the Embodied Unconscious through Reverie and Metaphor</p><p>Benedetta Guerrini Degl’Innocenti</p><p>Chapter 6</p><p>The Body in Psychoanalysis</p><p>Cristiano Rocchi</p><p>Chapter 7 </p><p>The Body in the Consulting Room: Italian-British conversations</p><p>Barbara Piovano</p><p>Chapter 8 </p><p>When the Body Speaks: Bodily expressions of unrepresented affects</p><p>Luigi Caparrotta</p><p>Chapter 9 </p><p>A Skin of One’s Own: On boundaries, the skin, and feminine sexuality</p><p>Patricia Grieve</p><p>Chapter 10 </p><p>"Seized With A Savage Woe": Attacks on the vitality of the body of a suicidal young man</p><p>Joan Schächter</p><p>Chapter 11 </p><p>Physical Violence and its Depiction by a Male Adolescent</p><p>Donald Campbell</p><p>Chapter 12 </p><p>The Hidden Secret - Ego Distortion in Facial Deformity: </p><p>Some reflections on the analysis of an adolescent boy</p><p>Bernard Roberts</p><p>Afterthoughts</p><p>Ronny Jaffè and Donald Campbell</p>