Main description:

Updated with three entirely new chapters. Represents psychosomatic work internationally. Leading contributors.

Contents:

Introduction; 1. Overflows in Theory and Clinical Practice; 2. Thoughts on the Paris School of Psychosomatics; 3. The Mysterious Leap of the Somatic into the Psyche; 4. Psychosomatics: The Role of the Unconscious Phantasy; 5. A Rash of a Different Colour: Somatopsychic Eruptions from the Other Side; 6. Adolescence: The Body as a Scenario for Non-Symbolized Dramas; 7. Psychosomatics Conditions in Contemporary Psychoanalysis; 8. Particular Vissicitudes of the Drive Confronted with Mourning: Sublimation and Somatization; 9. The Place of Affect in the Psychosomatic Economy; 10. The Capacity to Say No and Psychosomatic Disorders in Childhood; 11. Symbolism, Symbolization, and Trauma in Psychosomatic Theory; 12. From Physical Pain to an "Interactive Image": Notes on the Second Treatment Period of a Psychosomatic and Depressive Patient; 13. The Allergic Object Relation; Afterword