Nitza Yarom

Psychic Threats and Somatic Shelters

Attuning to the body in contemporary psychoanalytic dialogue

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Produktbeschreibung

There is increasing recognition within psychoanalysis and related therapies that awareness of the body is important in understanding and treating patients. Psychic Threats and Somatic Shelters explores the ways in which adults and children become acquainted with the range of physical issues that arise within their psychoanalytic or psychological treatments. Nitza Yarom discusses in a practical and clinically focused way the large variety of physical outlets which today's person uses to shelter from the many troubles and restrictions that are placed on everyday life. Her book is divided into two main sections: Somatic shelters, which explores the variety of physical symptoms encountered by patients, including problems with weight and eating; with sensation through sight, sound, smell and taste; in movement through hyper activity or rigidity and through the communication of physical pain. Embodied dialogue, in which the author updates the use of the basic technical principles of psychoanalysis to involve the body in the treatment including transference and counter-transference between analyst and patient. In Psychic Threats and Somatic Shelters the emotional communication of these body narratives are vividly demonstrated in the treatments presented, here the interaction in the consulting room is revealed in bodily resonance and its therapeutic effects. This book is written for psychoanalysts and psychotherapists, psychologists, body therapists, family therapists, social workers and art/movement therapists.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 354g
• ISBN-13: 9780415835220
• ISBN-10: 0415835224
• Artikelnr.: 41216851

Autorenporträt

Nitza Yarom is a psychoanalyst and psychotherapist in private practice in Tel-Aviv. She is retired from an academic career and now focuses on supervision and clinical seminars. She is the author of several books, including Matrix of Hysteria (Routledge, 2005).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I Somatic shelters; 1. Subjects in sight
sound and touch; I see you/ you see me
The sounds in the consulting room
Touch and the other senses
2 Subjects in smell and taste; Smells in the consulting room
Taste and distaste in the consulting room
3 True and false movement; Spontaneous gestures: on physical and psychic movement
Rigidity: on muscular 'second skin'
pseudo-independence and beyond
4 The woman's body; femininity in turmoil
Four young women: clinical vignettes
Narcissistic hurt and feminine dis-identification: discussion
5 Fatness and skinniness: object-relations in cultural perspective; Skinniness in evacuation and swallowing up
Overweight as 'second skin' and 'false self
The idealized body of the absent subject: A cultural perspective
6 Ailing marital relations
Family culture of somatic shelters
Difficulties in contemporary marital relations
Somatic shelters in mid-life coupling
7 When the body ails between parents and children; Difficulties in contemporary parenthood and the child's body
Ailment between mothers and daughters
Ailment between mothers and sons
The body between fathers and daughters
The body between fathers and sons
8 On pain and mutual pain
How we manage our pain: Psychoanalytic perspectives
Painful experiences
Part II Embodied; Dialogue
9 Essentials in attuning to the patient's body
Freely-associating and listening
The oedipal
the pre-oedipal and the inter-subjective
Presence
resistance and self-expression
10 A process of self-expression and resistance
Self-expression and resistance at the beginning of treatment
Self-expression and resistance in the progress of the treatment
Self-expression and resistance at the termination of treatment
11 The vital bodily-counter-transference; The analyst attuning to his own body first or expanding
counter-transference
The sick analyst
The analyst falling asleep
The analyst serving as eyes
12 Readiness for bodily-transference
The patient's use of his analyst's body in transference
The uses of the object's body
Experiencing subjectivity via the analyst's body
13 Interpretation between the material and the metaphoric; Spontaneous intervention and dialectic position
The topographic interpretation
Topographic interpretations in vivo
14 Primitive mental states and inter-subjectivity; Interpreting and misinterpreting
Mutual reclaiming
15 Dialogue of narratives and enactment
Body narratives
Enactment: an honest and responsible dialogue
References.