1st Edition
Psychic Threats and Somatic Shelters Attuning to the body in contemporary psychoanalytic dialogue
Preface, Acknowledgments, Part I Somatic shelters; 1. Subjects in sight, sound and touch; I see you/ you see me, The sounds in the consulting room, Touch and the other senses, 2 Subjects in smell and taste; Smells in the consulting room, Taste and distaste in the consulting room, 3 True and false movement; Spontaneous gestures: on physical and psychic movement, Rigidity: on muscular 'second skin', pseudo-independence and beyond, 4 The woman's body; femininity in turmoil, Four young women: clinical vignettes, Narcissistic hurt and feminine dis-identification: discussion, 5 Fatness and skinniness: object-relations in cultural perspective; Skinniness in evacuation and swallowing up, Overweight as 'second skin' and 'false self, The idealized body of the absent subject: A cultural perspective, 6 Ailing marital relations, Family culture of somatic shelters, Difficulties in contemporary marital relations, Somatic shelters in mid-life coupling, 7 When the body ails between parents and children; Difficulties in contemporary parenthood and the child's body, Ailment between mothers and daughters, Ailment between mothers and sons, The body between fathers and daughters, The body between fathers and sons, 8 On pain and mutual pain, How we manage our pain: Psychoanalytic perspectives, Painful experiences, Part II Embodied; Dialogue, 9 Essentials in attuning to the patient's body, Freely-associating and listening, The oedipal, the pre-oedipal and the inter-subjective, Presence, resistance and self-expression, 10 A process of self-expression and resistance, Self-expression and resistance at the beginning of treatment, Self-expression and resistance in the progress of the treatment, Self-expression and resistance at the termination of treatment, 11 The vital bodily-counter-transference; The analyst attuning to his own body first or expanding, counter-transference, The sick analyst, The analyst falling asleep, The analyst serving as eyes, 12 Readiness for bodily-transference, The patient's use of his analyst's body in transference, The uses of the object's body, Experiencing subjectivity via the analyst's body, 13 Interpretation between the material and the metaphoric; Spontaneous intervention and dialectic position, The topographic interpretation, Topographic interpretations in vivo, 14 Primitive mental states and inter-subjectivity; Interpreting and misinterpreting, Mutual reclaiming, 15 Dialogue of narratives and enactment, Body narratives, Enactment: an honest and responsible dialogue, References.
Biography
Nitza Yarom is a psychoanalyst and psychotherapist in private practice in Tel-Aviv. She is retired from an academic career and now focuses on supervision and clinical seminars. She is the author of several books, including Matrix of Hysteria (Routledge, 2005).
