When the body displaces the mind : stress, trauma and somatic disease / Jean Benjamin Stora ; foreword by Mark Solms ; translated by Sophie Leighton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stora, Jean Benjamin, 1934-

Standardized Title:

Quand le corps prend la relève. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stress (Psychology)--Case studies.

Stress (Psychology).

Somatoform disorders--Case studies.

Somatoform disorders.

Psychic trauma--Case studies.

Psychic trauma.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Karnac, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Can the mind really generate a physical disease? Conversely, can the body cause mental illness? What do we know today about their interaction? The relations between body and mind are the source of many problems that are currently treated separately by psychoanalysts and doctors because of the compartmentalisation between their disciplines. Despite differences in clinical practice, we all stand to benefit from a common understanding of the reciprocal influences of the mind and the body and the ways in which these are interrelated. It is time to stop treating the body in isolation from treatment

Contents:

Cover; Copy Right; FOREWORD; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE: Emotions and traumas; CHAPTER TWO: The economic viewpoint and mentalisation processes; CHAPTER THREE: Amanda, Arnaud, Alice, Sandrine and Emma-somatisations and regressions; CHAPTER FOUR: Adrienne and Sanjay-progressive disorganisation and somatisations: the emergence of irreversible unstable equilibria; CHAPTER FIVE: The psychotherapy of somatic patients-the case of Nina, a woman from the Maghreb; BIBLIOGRAPHY

Notes:

Translated from the French.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-429-48492-5

1-283-07025-1

9786613070258

1-84940-600-6

9780429484926

OCLC:

723944715