Psychic threats and somatic shelters : attuning to the body in contemporary psychoanalytic dialogue / Nitza Yarom.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yarom, Nitza, 1943- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mind and body.

Psychoanalysis.

Psychotherapist and patient.

Physical Description:

xi, 214 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Hove, East Sussex : Routledge, 2015.

Summary:

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 that 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. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Somatic Shelters 1

1 Subjects in sight, sound, and touch 3

I see you/you see me 4

The patient sees 6

The sounds in the consulting room 8

Touch and the other senses 13

2 Subjects in smell and taste 18

Smells in the consulting room 18

Taste and distaste in the consulting room 25

3 True and false movement 31

Spontaneous gestures: on physical and psychic movement 33

Rigidity: on muscular "second skin," pseudo-independence, and beyond 37

4 The woman's body: femininity in turmoil 40

Four young women: clinical vignettes 41

Narcissistic hurt and feminine dis-identification: discussion 47

5 Fatness and skinniness: object-relations in cultural Perspective 52

Skinniness in evacuation and swallowing up 54

Overweight as "second skin" and "false self" 59

The idealized body of the absent subject: a cultural perspective 61

6 Ailing marital relations 65

Family culture of somatic shelters 65

Difficulties in contemporary marital relations 67

Somatic shelters in mid-life coupling 69

7 When the body ails between parents and children 76

Difficulties in contemporary parenthood and the child's body 76

Ailment between mothers and daughters 81

Ailment between mothers and sons 87

The body between fathers and daughters 93

The body between fathers and sons 94

8 On pain and mutual pain 98

How we manage our pain: psychoanalytic perspectives 100

Painful experiences 104

Part II Embodied Dialogue 115

9 Essentials in attuning to the patient's body 117

Freely -associating and listening 117

The oedipal. the pre-oedipal and the inter subjective 122

Presence, resistance, and self-expression 123

10 A process of self-expression and resistance 126

Self-expression and resistance at the beginning of treatment 126

Self-expression and resistance in the progress of the treatment 129

Self-expression and resistance at the termination of treatment 136

11 The vital bodily-counter-transference 138

Freely analyst attuning to his own body first or expanding counter-transference 138

The sick analyst 141

The analyst falling asleep 147

The analyst serving as eyes 151

12 Readiness for bodily-transference 155

The patient's use of his analyst's body in transference 156

The uses of the object's body 158

Experiencing subjectivity via the analyst's body 169

Analyst's visibility as object and subject 171

13 Interpretation between the material and the metaphoric 174

Spontaneous intervention and dialectic position 174

The topographic interpretation 176

Topographic interpretations in vivo 180

14 Primitive mental states and inter-subjectivity 184

Interpreting and misinterpreting 185

Mutual reclaiming 188

15 Dialogue of narratives and enactment 194

Body narratives 195

Enactment: an honest and responsible dialogue 198.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415835213

0415835216

9780415835220

0415835224

OCLC:

881591884