ABSTRACT
While the body has received significant attention in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in the last couple of decades, this still focused primarily on the body of pathology - the body as speaking for (or on behalf of) the mind. Here, leading psychoanalysts and psychotherapists join with experts whose field is the body to examine and celebrate generative, creative, vital, and irreducible aspects of our embodiment. The book is divided into seven themes, each including a chapter by a therapist and another by a specialist pondering various aspects of the body. Fashion journalists speak with a relational psychotherapist about beauty, a chef discusses sensuality with a couple therapist, and a Rabbi and a psychoanalyst speak of divinity and the body. This is a book aimed at igniting our imagination and faith in the possibility of living a full embodied life, and of integrating such practices within therapeutic and psychoanalytic work.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|19 pages
The Rhythmic Body
part II|24 pages
The Living Body
part III|27 pages
The Sensual Body
part IV|24 pages
The Body of Pain
part V|24 pages
The Beautiful Body
part VI|23 pages
The Divine Body
part VII|24 pages
The Psychotherapist’s Body