1st Edition
The Bodily Unconscious in Psychoanalytic Technique
1. Introduction: Psychoanalysis and Corporeality – The History of Avoidance
Sebastian Leikert
2. The Crack in the Self of Chronic Pain Patients: The Emotional Processes Involved in the Development of Psychosomatic Diseases and the Consequences for Treatment
Reinhard Plassmann
3. Body–Mind Dissociation and Transference onto the Body
Riccardo Lombardi
4. How To Begin?
Jörg M. Scharff
5. Accidents of Seduction and the Theory of the Body
Christophe Dejours
6. Affect Dialog, Affect Debris, and Encapsulated Body Engrams: Some Reflections on Psychoanalytic Technique with the Bodily Encoded Unconscious
Sebastian Leikert
7. "My Body Runs Alongside Me Like Something I Don’t Need." Bodily Sensations in the Development and Organization of Mental Structure
Ursula Volz-Boers
8. Mind the Gap: Mentalizing the Body
Ulrich Schultz-Venrath
9. Corporeality and Dream-Talk
Ewa Kobylinska-Dehe
10. The Via Regia of the Rhizome: Paths in the Unconscious of the Psychosomatic Body
Lutz Goetzmann
11. Mentalized Alterity: Psychodynamic Work with Bodily Countertransference
Timo Storck
Biography
Sebastian Leikert is a psychoanalyst in Saarbrücken, Germany. He is a training analyst at the German Society for Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy, Psychosomatics and Depth Psychology (DGPT), and a member of the editorial boards of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis and The Psychoanalytic Quarterly.
