Psychosomatics today a psychoanalytic perspective (Karnac, 2010)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Thoughts on the Paris school of psychosomatics / André Green -- The mysterious leap of the somatic into the psyche / Marilia Aisenstein -- Psychosomatics : the role of unconscious phantasy / Catalina Bronstein -- A rash of a different colour : somatopsychic eruptions from the other side / Lila J. Kalinich -- Adolescence : the body as a scenario for non-symbolized dramas / Ruggero Levy -- Psychosomatic conditions in contemporary psychoanalyisis / Elsa Rappoport de Aisemberg -- Particular vicissitudes of the drive confronted with mourning : sublimation and somatization / Evelyne Sechaud -- The place of affect in the psychosomatic economy / Claude Smadja -- The capacity to say no and psychosomatic disorders in childhood / Gerard Szwec -- Symbolism, symbolization, and trauma in psychosomatic theory / Graeme J. Taylor
Psychosomatics have classically been of peripheral importance within our wellknown theoretical models, despite the fact that they do have a history in the field of psychoanalysis. This might be owing to the fact that Freud did not explicitly approach psychosomatics and, in consequence, did not put forward any hypotheses within his theoretical body. However, the Freudian concepts of actual neuroses and mixed neuroses are a basis in order to understand psychosomatic phenomena. The same could be said about the connections established with subsequent Freudian theoretical models, such as: the intro