1st Edition
From Soma to Symbol Psychosomatic Conditions and Transformative Experience
Edited By Phyllis L. Sloate
Copyright 2016
288 Pages
by
Routledge
288 Pages
by
Routledge
288 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book traces the theoretical history of psychosomatics in psychoanalysis, and with it the ways that psychoanalytically-trained clinicians have tried to understand and treat patients with complex psychosomatic symptoms. It offers a rethinking of the mind-body relationship in psychoanalysis, eschewing past dichotomies between the psychological and the corporeal, and today's either-or... Read more
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Biography
Phyllis L Sloate
