A New Vision of Psychoanalytic Theory, Practice and Supervision

TALKING BODIES
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-032-20749-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 136 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 222 g

By viewing psychoanalysis through the lens of embodiment, Brothers and Sletvold suggest a shift away from traditional concept-based theory and offer new ways to understand traumatic experiences, to describe the therapeutic exchange and to enhance the supervisory process.

Since traditional psychoanalytic language does not readily lend itself to embodied experience, the authors place particular emphasis on the words I, you, we and world, to describe the flow of human attention. Offering new insights into trauma, this book demonstrates how traumatic experiences and efforts to regain certainty in one’s psychological life involve profound disruptions of this flow. With a new understanding of transference, resistance and interpretation, the authors ultimately show how much can be gained from viewing the analytic exchange as a meeting between foreign bodies.

Grounded in detailed case material, this book will change the way therapists from all disciplines understand the therapeutic process and how viewing it in terms of talking bodies enhances their efforts to heal.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Professional

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brothers, Doris

Sletvold, Jon

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Bodies in Time: An Introduction 1. Embodied Language and the Silence Between the Words 2. Foreign Bodies: From Interpretation to Translation 3. Traumatized Bodies 4. Embodying Dissociation 5. Memory, Narrative and the Embodiment of Transference 6. Resistance or the Lack of Freedom to Change 7. The Us-Them Binary of Fascist Experience 8. Body-Based Supervision 9. Why not the Body? Coda Appendix A: The Patient's Perception of the Analyst Appendix B: Some Past and Present Views on Embodiment

Über Autor(innen)

Doris Brothers is a co-founder of the Training and Research in Intersubjective Self Psychology Foundation. She serves on the council of the International Association for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology and has previously published three books, including Toward a Psychology of Uncertainty: Trauma-Centered Psychoanalysis. She practices in New York and Oslo.

Jon Sletvold is the founding board director of the Norwegian Character Analytic Institute. He has published books and articles on the role of the body in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. He is the author of The Embodied Analyst: From Freud and Reich to Relationality (2014), winner of the Gradiva Award in 2015.