Between Skins: The Body in Psychoanalysis - Contemporary Developments

Nicola Diamond

apr 2013 · Verkocht door John Wiley & Sons

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Between Skins challenges individualistic accounts of the body in psychoanalysis. Drawing on philosophy, contemporary neurobiology and developmental research, Nicola Diamond explores the ways in which bodily processes and skin experience are inseparable from the field of language and environmental context.

• The first book to address epistemological implications for a new understanding of the body and embodiment - offers a new perspective on the division between mind, body and world
• Brings together a philosophical phenomenological account of body experience with key concepts from psychoanalysis, developmental research and neuroscience
• Responds to a growing interest in the body and psychoanalysis, and considers some limitations in neuro-biological accounts of brain-body processes for psychoanalytical understanding

Over de auteur

Dr Nicola Diamond is a Senior Lecturer in Psychosocial Studies, University of East London, and teaches at the Tavistock Clinic. She is also a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist with the British Association of Psychotherapists (British Psychoanalytic Council registered) in private practice, and runs a clinic at The Helen Bamber Foundation; before this she worked as a Psychotherapist at the Women's Therapy Centre in London. She is the co-author of Attachment and Intersubjectivity (with Mario Marrone, 2003) and has published widely in the field.