There is increasing recognition within psychoanalysis and related therapies that awareness of the body is important in understanding and treating patients. Psychic Threats and Somatic Shelters explores the ways in which adults and children become acquainted with the range of physical issues that arise within their psychoanalytic or psychological treatments. Nitza Yarom discusses, in a practical and clinically focused way, the large variety of physical outlets which today’s person uses to shelter from the many troubles and restrictions that are placed on everyday life.
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- Explores physical symptoms encountered by patients, including issues with weight and eating.
- Examines sensation through sight, sound, smell, and taste.
- Covers movement through hyperactivity or rigidity and the communication of physical pain.
- Updates psychoanalytic principles to involve the body in treatment, including transference and counter-transference.
- Demonstrates emotional communication of body narratives through vivid treatment examples.
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This book is written for psychoanalysts and psychotherapists, psychologists, body therapists, family therapists, social workers, and art/movement therapists.
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