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Skin in Psychoanalysis

Skin in Psychoanalysis

Paperback

General PsychologyMental Health

ISBN10: 1855755165
ISBN13: 9781855755161
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 19 2007
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.04
Height: 0.75 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.93
Language: English

Skin in Psychoanalysis is an important theoretical contribution, revising several authors starting with Freud in whose writing we can now discover multiple direct or indirect references to the skin. It adopts a decidedly complex point of view regarding the skin here: the skin as source, the skin as object, the skin as protection and as a way of entrance, as contact and as contagion, the skin 'for two' within the relationship with the mother, the skin as envelope and as support, as a shell presented as 'second skin', as demarcation of individuality, as a place of inscription of non-verbal memories, toxic envelops and so on. Also, being the result of more than fifteen years of work with dermatologists and patients with skin diseases, psoriasis in particular, the book can be seen as a serious proposal for interdisciplinary work between dermatologists and psychoanalysts.'The hospital is a place where both tragedies and miracles occur, where many people go to heal but many others go in search for punishment.

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