Body In Psychoanalysis Research Articles

Feels Like Me: Formulating the Embodied Mind

ABSTRACT The invitation extended to me by the Editors to contribute to this issue of Psychoanalytic Inquiry, centered on embodiment, made me realize that I had never explicitly addressed the subject. And so in this essay, without contextualizing my thoughts about embodiment in the large, existing literature on the topic, I begin to think through the relation of embodiment to the phenomena I have described over the course of the last forty years or so: unformulated experience, dissociation, enactment, and the interpersonal field. I also take up the relation of the verbal and the nonverbal, arguing that to grant a fundamental role to the body in psychoanalysis does not imply that language is secondary. I go on to present a schematic understanding of the role of embodied processes in the formulation of experience, and I end with an illustration of somatic life in clinical process.

A CONSTITUIÇÃO DO CORPO DO AUTISTA: DO DESAMPARO À INVENÇÃO

Este artigo busca a apreensão dos processos envolvidos na constituição do corpo do autista, para o qual não há o Outro de referência. À luz do testemunho de Daniel Tammet, escritor britânico e autista, será possível elucidar o lugar dos objetos para os autistas e como o interesse da pessoa autista pelo objeto fora do corpo permite a construção de sua borda, atuando como recurso protetor contra perturbações corporais, angústias e isolamento. Assim, o investimento nos objetos externos resulta na redução da incidência no corpo do gozo não interligado, abrindo possibilidade para o campo do Outro. Os objetivos pretendidos são examinar o conceito de corpo na psicanálise com relação ao autismo, investigar a constituição do corpo do autista com base na teoria psicanalítica e, por fim, identificar os efeitos, no corpo, do interesse pelos objetos autísticos.

Corona Virus, Social Distancing, and the Body in Psychoanalysis.

Corona Virus, Social Distancing, and the Body in Psychoanalysis.

The Digital Age on the Couch: Psychoanalytic Practice and New Media by AlessandraLemma. Published by Routledge, London, 2017; 154 pp, £24.99 paperback

The Digital Age on the Couch: Psychoanalytic Practice and New Media by AlessandraLemma. Published by Routledge, London, 2017; 154 pp, £24.99 paperback

Les preuves de l’existence du corps lacanien

AimsThis article demonstrates the importance of the body in Lacanian theory and psychoanalytic practice. The article aims to prove that Lacan's theory of psychoanalysis is not only based on language but also on a new theory of the body, specific to psychoanalysis. MethodThe method chosen by the author consists in studying the different moments in Lacanian theory, and in showing the main paradigms of the body that emerge within it. From the beginning to the end of his teaching, Jacques Lacan gives to the body in psychoanalysis a specific function. ResultsThis article shows that the Lacanian body is not the biological body, but it is the body of the libido, the body of drives, and also the body of anxiety. The first Lacanian body is an imaginary body. It is the mirror body, the body that can be seen. The second Lacanian body is the body of fantasy, which is at the meeting point between the imaginary and the symbolic. The third Lacanian body is the body of anxiety, the body of “object a”. Lacan calls it an organism, the organism of the libido. DiscussionThis article shows that psychoanalysis is not only an intellectual experience, but an experience in which the body occupies a central position. ConclusionThe last Lacanian conception of the body opens onto a discussion about the body and trauma. This last conception of the body introduces a new conception of language in psychoanalysis, which provides a new conception of interpretation in psychoanalysis.

Minding the Body: The Body in Psychoanalysis and Beyond by Alessandra Lemma (New Library of Psychoanalysis ‘Beyond the Couch’ Series). Published by Routledge, London, 2014; 180 pp; £30.99 (paperback)

British Journal of PsychotherapyVolume 31, Issue 4 p. 541-543 Review Essay Minding the Body: The Body in Psychoanalysis and Beyond by Lemma, Alessandra (New Library of Psychoanalysis ‘Beyond the Couch’ Series). Published by Routledge, London, 2014; 180 pp; £30.99 (paperback) Julian Stern, Julian Stern julianstern@hotmail.com British Psychotherapy Foundation, LondonSearch for more papers by this author Julian Stern, Julian Stern julianstern@hotmail.com British Psychotherapy Foundation, LondonSearch for more papers by this author First published: 16 September 2015 https://doi.org/10.1111/bjp.12181Citations: 1Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume31, Issue4November 2015Pages 541-543 RelatedInformation

Review of Women’s bodies in psychoanalysis.

Review of Women’s bodies in psychoanalysis.

Between Skins: The Body in Psychoanalysis - Contemporary Developments by Nicola Diamond. Published by Wiley Blackwell, Chichester, 2013; 288 pp; £60 hardback

British Journal of PsychotherapyVolume 30, Issue 2 p. 275-278 Book Review Between Skins: The Body in Psychoanalysis – Contemporary Developments by Nicola Diamond. Published by Wiley Blackwell, Chichester, 2013; 288 pp; £60 hardback Werner Prall, Werner Prall Guild of Psychotherapists prallwerner@gmail.com LondonSearch for more papers by this author Werner Prall, Werner Prall Guild of Psychotherapists prallwerner@gmail.com LondonSearch for more papers by this author First published: 15 April 2014 https://doi.org/10.1111/bjp.12087Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Volume30, Issue2May 2014Pages 275-278 RelatedInformation

Women’s Bodies in Psychoanalysis. by Rosemary M. Balsam

(2014). Women’s Bodies in Psychoanalysis. by Rosemary M. Balsam. The Psychoanalytic Quarterly: Vol. 83, No. 2, pp. 481-487.

Between skins: the body in psychoanalysis--contemporary developments

Introduction 1 Part I The Framework: Neuroscience and Interdisciplinary Connections 11 1 Introducing Interdisciplinary Connections 13 2 Nurture/Nature 29 3 Bodily Expression and Language Relations 38 4 Setting the Scene: The Problem of the Binary Divide 51 Part II The Vital Order: Moving Away from Interiority and Biology as Bedrock 59 5 The Vital Order and the Biological Functions: Going Back to the Fundamental Problem 61 6 The Problem of Dualism and the Division between the Vital and the Psychic Order 74 7 The Vital Revisited: Deconstructing the Vital Order from Within 77 8 Rebuilding the Vital Field 90 9 Body Memory and Know-How 101 10 Attachment and Sexuality: Regulation versus Deregulation 109 Part III Exteriority: The Body Surface 119 11 The Skin: An Introduction 121 12 Didier Anzieu and The Skin Ego 137 13 Permeable Skin 147 14 The Emergence of Skin as a Support Matrix 154 15 Skin Narratives 162 16 Skin Relation 173 17 Skin Writing and Touch as Analogous to Language 179 18 Psychosomatics and Conversion: The Question of the Symbol 189 Conclusion: Have We Reached a Destination? 208 References and Further Reading 217 Index 226

Women’s Bodies in Psychoanalysis

Women’s Bodies in Psychoanalysis

Book Review: Women’s Bodies in Psychoanalysis

Book Review: Women’s Bodies in Psychoanalysis

(RE)membering The Female Body In Psychoanalysis

(RE)membering The Female Body In Psychoanalysis

Book Review: Women’s Bodies in Psychoanalysis

Book Review: Women’s Bodies in Psychoanalysis

Rosemary Balsam: Women's Bodies in Psychoanalysis

Rosemary Balsam: Women's Bodies in Psychoanalysis

Commentary on Paper by Ellen F. Fries

In Perchance to Sleep: Minding the Unworded Body in Psychoanalysis, Ellen F. Fries masterfully articulates the complexities of right-brain to right-brain, body-to-body interactions between herself and her patient. Her work highlights the dominance of the nonverbal implicit self over the verbal, explicit self and provides an excellent example of clinical work in which she thoughtfully attends to the unspoken, bodily based communication that takes place within the therapeutic dyad. In this discussion, I offer perspectives from Sensorimotor Psychotherapy on the impact of early attachment on the procedural organization of action sequences that reflect and sustain the implicit self, and embody unconscious relational expectations. The following topics are addressed: (a) Physical actions that provide avenues of exploration into the implicit self, especially actions such as reaching out, making eye contact, or maintaining an upright posture that are abandoned or distorted when they are ineffective in eliciting the desired response from attachment figures; (b) Body-oriented interventions that target the involuntary physical spasms that Fries' patient experiences, which are associated with unresolved physiological arousal originally stimulated in the face of trauma; and (c) The nonverbal manifestation and negotiation of enactments that emerge from the body-to-body dialogue between the implicit selves of patient and therapist.

Perchance to Sleep: Minding the Unworded Body in Psychoanalysis

In contemporary relational psychoanalysis, influenced by developmental/attachment theories, infant research, and neurobiology, the effectiveness and transformational potential of “the talking cure” can be thought of as, at times, located in areas of nonverbal engagement. It has become increasingly evident that human experience is born in the body and structured in body-based memory that informs us of what we “know in our gut” and contributes to our relating as embodied beings—experiences that as psychoanalysts we cannot or need not necessarily translate directly into declarative discourse. A detailed case presentation from work with a patient suffering from a severe sleep disorder and other forms of bodily dysregulation will be offered to illustrate and explore the affectively meaningful engagement between patient and analyst of somatically encoded, presymbolic memory within the context of a symbolically rich, verbal treatment relationship.

The Experience of Another Body on Our Body in Psychoanalysis: Commentary on Paper by Jon Sletvold

The current challenge of complexity requires that we overcome the mind–body dichotomy in order to find a more holistic way to explore human experience. Contemporary relational psychoanalysis tries to get past the overemphasis placed on language, and to include the development and promotion of a greater awareness of the bodily experience of the patient and analyst, with respect to their “bodies as they relate to each other.” We especially agree with Sletvold about the notion that psychoanalysis has a great deal to learn from the performing arts in terms of engaging in emotional communication and therefore of training the body to express emotions. This is true in particular for the “arts of time”: music, dance, acting. Unlike Sletvold, we keep the relational standpoint as a point of departure rather than as a point of arrival of processes. According to us, imitation is not the result of induction; rather it is a process whereby we discover and rediscover, that is, we find again the remains of the effects of another body on our body. In clinical praxis we should learn how to allow an ongoing dialectic between the implicit and the explicit. Finally, we underscore that we find the training program proposed by Sletvold original, innovative, and stimulating.

What has happened to the body in psychoanalysis?

(2004). What has happened to the body in psychoanalysis? The International Journal of Psychoanalysis: Vol. 85, No. 4, pp. 973-976.

The Therapeutic Approach to The Body in Psychoanalysis and Its Relation to Movement Therapy and Bioenergetic Analysis

Journal of The American Academy of Psychoanalysis 29(3), 483–490, 2001 © 2001 The American Academy of Psychoanalysis I am not a psychoanalyst; rather, I am a clinical psychologist trained in the psychoanalytic field. Fifteen years ago I became acquainted with movement therapy, and a couple of years later I started training in Bioenergetic Analysis. Those years were very enriching for my body-psyche development, but I suffered a great loneliness among my verbal colleagues. There was no way to convey to them the strength and depth of these therapeutic approaches. Whenever I tried to talk about it I was perceived as a bit “off the track.” This gap between my inner experience and my inability to communicate it to my professional environment was the main impetus for writing this article, wherein I have tried to integrate my two therapeutic identities (verbal and body). This process has not been easy. I believe that my own personal experience of this difficulty is emblematic of a universal problem among therapists. I call it the professional split.