Minding the Body: The Body in Psychoanalysis and Beyond

by Alessandra Lemma

Book Overview

Minding the Body: The Body in Psychoanalysis and Beyond outlines the value of a psychoanalytic approach to understanding the body and its vicissitudes and for addressing these in the context of psychoanalytic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. The chapters cover a broad but esoteric range of subjects that are not often discussed within psychoanalysis such as the function of breast augmentation surgery, the psychic origins of hair, the use made of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415718597
• ISBN13: 9780415718592
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.2"