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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818226403321

Autore

Stora Jean Benjamin <1934->

Titolo

When the body displaces the mind : stress, trauma and somatic disease / / Jean Benjamin Stora ; foreword by Mark Solms ; translated by Sophie Leighton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Karnac, 2007

ISBN

0-429-48492-5

1-283-07025-1

9786613070258

1-84940-600-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (280 p.)

Disciplina

616.0019

Soggetti

Stress (Psychology)

Somatoform disorders

Psychic trauma

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Translated from the French.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Copy Right; FOREWORD; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE: Emotions and traumas; CHAPTER TWO: The economic viewpoint and mentalisation processes; CHAPTER THREE: Amanda, Arnaud, Alice, Sandrine and Emma-somatisations and regressions; CHAPTER FOUR: Adrienne and Sanjay-progressive disorganisation and somatisations: the emergence of irreversible unstable equilibria; CHAPTER FIVE: The psychotherapy of somatic patients-the case of Nina, a woman from the Maghreb; BIBLIOGRAPHY

Sommario/riassunto

Can the mind really generate a physical disease? Conversely, can the body cause mental illness? What do we know today about their interaction? The relations between body and mind are the source of many problems that are currently treated separately by psychoanalysts and doctors because of the compartmentalisation between their disciplines. Despite differences in clinical practice, we all stand to benefit from a common understanding of the reciprocal influences of the mind and the body and the ways in which these are interrelated. It is time to stop treating the body in isolation from treatment