A New Vision of Psychoanalytic Theory, Practice and Supervision

TALKING BODIES

Doris Brothers, Jon Sletvold

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9781032207483
• eBook ISBN: 9781000875768
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Mental Health in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Endorsements
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• 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
• Index