Theatres of the body : a psychoanalytic approach to psychosomatic illness
1989, First Edition. London : Free Association Books. Very good paperback copy; wrappers slightly creased, and sun-toned about the spine. Bright and clean internally. Remains well-preserved overall. Item #454750
ISBN: 1853431079
Physical description; 183 pages ; 23 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Introduction: the psychosoma and the psychoanalytic voyage -- Mater -- The body-mind matrix -- On psychic deprivation -- The psychosomatic couple: mother and child -- Of sleep and death -- Affects, affect dispersal, and disaffectation -- The analyst and the disaffected patient -- The reasons of the heart -- The grief that has no vent in tears -- One body for two -- Les fruits de la mere. Subjects; Medicine, Psychosomatic. Psychoanalysis. Somatoform disorders. Alexithymia.
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