Main description:

While the body has received significant attention in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in the last couple of decades, this still focused primarily on the body of pathology - the body as speaking for (or on behalf of) the mind. Here, leading psychoanalysts and psychotherapists join with experts whose field is the body to examine and celebrate gene

Contents:

Foreword -- Introduction -- The Rhythmic Body -- Polyrhythmic weave of micro-moment interaction -- Dialogue: the song that's in our head -- The Living Body -- A body in relationship -- A birthing body -- Dialogue: the living body -- The Sensual Body -- In search of erotic intelligence -- La petite mort -- Dialogue: imagining desire -- The Body of Pain -- There is no process in death -- A woman, singing to herself -- Dialogue: screaming into Hell -- The Beautiful Body -- Subjects of beauty -- The journey back to self-worth -- Dialogue: recognising beauty -- The Divine Body -- Where is body? -- In my flesh I shall see God -- Dialogue: down the mountain -- The Psychotherapist's Body -- Responding to a boundary -- Like love -- Dialogue: falling off the horse