Main description:

Looking at the body in psychoanalysis is very much a hot topic.
Original object relations perspective.
Chapters feature clinical case studies.

Contents:

PART I Mind-Body Relations in Winnicott, Bion, and Beyond 1 Introduction 2 Being after Winnicott: Minding the Body, Embodying the Mind 3 Does the Body have a Mind? PART II Oneiric Body 4 Introduction 5 Body as Dream Space 6 Foreword to "Dreaming into Death": Welcoming Death 7 Dreaming into Death PART III Nascent Body in Early Object Relations 8 Introduction 9 Clinical Impasse: The Infant Body and Gathering of a Soul 10 The Environment Within: On the Fetus's Capacity to Differentiate Self from Other PART IV Body and Psychosensory Experience 11 Introduction 12 Embodiment, Dissociation, and the Rhythm of Life 13 River to Rapids: Speaking to the Body in Terms the Body can Understand PART V Body in Breakdown 14 Introduction 15 The Self as a Refugee in the Psychosomatic Condition 16 Body as Enemy: The Risk of Coming Alive 17 Autoimmunity as a Response to Analytic Change PART VI Body in Virtual Space 18 Introduction 19 The Body Vanishes? Preliminary Thoughts on Bodily Experience and the Identity of the Analyst in Remote Analysis