ABSTRACT
This book compiles the papers presented at John Bowlby Memorial Conference 2003, exploring the complex and interwoven themes of touch, attachment and the body and their emergence in clinical work. It offers a new theory of the body, and of the role of the body in psychoanalytical practice.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |15 pages
Intimate contact from birth
How we know one another by touch, voice, and expression in movement
chapter |18 pages
The John Bowlby Memorial Lecture 2003 The body in clinical practice
Part One There is no such thing as a body
chapter |13 pages
The John Bowlby Memorial Lecture 2003 The body in clinical practice
Part Two When touch comes to therapy
