Conversion Disorder: Listening to the Body in Psychoanalysis

by Jamieson Webster

Book Overview

Conversion disorder--a psychiatric term that names the enigmatic transformation of psychic energy into bodily manifestations--offers a way to rethink the present. With so many people suffering from unexplained bodily symptoms; with so many seeking recourse to pharmacological treatments or bodily modification; with young men and women seemingly willing to direct violence toward anybody, including themselves--a radical disordering in culture insists...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231184085
• ISBN13: 9780231184083
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.1"