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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827085003321

Titolo

Touch papers : dialogues on touch in the psychoanalytic space / / edited by Graeme Galton ; with a foreword by Susie Orbach

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2018

ISBN

0-429-90886-5

0-429-48409-7

1-283-26502-8

9786613265029

1-84940-514-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (280 p.)

Disciplina

150.195

Soggetti

Psychoanalysis

Touch - Psychological aspects

Therapist and patient

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-188) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Copy Right; Content; ABOUT THE EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTORS; FOREWORD; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE: Winnicott's experiments with physical contact: creative innovation or chaotic impingement?; CHAPTER TWO: Touching and affective closeness; CHAPTER THREE: Symbolic understanding of tactile communication in psychotherapy; CHAPTER FOUR: -we're British psychodynamic practitioners; CHAPTER FIVE: Can touching be relevant to understanding some patients in psychoanalysis?; CHAPTER SIX: Bearing witness to an abused patient's physical injuries; CHAPTER SEVEN Between touches

CHAPTER EIGHT: The presence of the body in psychotherapyCHAPTER NINE: The issue of physical contact in psychoanalytic work with children and adolescents; CHAPTER TEN: Strong adaptive perspectives on patient-therapist physical contact; CHAPTER ELEVEN: A body psychotherapist's approach to touch; CHAPTER TWELVE: Something dangerous: touch in forensic practice; REFERENCES

Sommario/riassunto

For the first time, the controversial issue of physical contact in the consulting room is explored by distinguished psychoanalysts and



psychotherapists representing a diverse range of psychoanalytic viewpoints. The contributors focus on the unconscious meanings of touch, or absence of touch, or unwelcome touch, or accidental touch in the psychoanalytic clinical situation. There are plenty of clinical vignettes and the discussions are grounded in clinical experience.