(Ebook) Between Skins: The Body in Psychoanalysis, Contemporary Developments by Nicola Diamond ISBN 9780470019429, 9781118321102, 0470019425, 1118321103

(Ebook) Between Skins: The Body in Psychoanalysis, Contemporary Developments by Nicola Diamond ISBN 9780470019429, 9781118321102, 0470019425, 1118321103

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 worldBrings together a philosophical phenomenological account of body experience with key concepts from psychoanalysis, developmental research and neuroscienceResponds to a growing interest in the body and psychoanalysis, and considers some limitations in neuro-biological accounts of brain-body processes for psychoanalytical understandingContent: Chapter none Introduction (pages 1–9): Chapter 1 Introducing Interdisciplinary Connections (pages 11–28): Chapter 2 Nurture/Nature (pages 29–37): Chapter 3 Bodily Expression and Language Relations (pages 38–50): Chapter 4 Setting the Scene (pages 51–58): Chapter 5 The Vital Order and the Biological Functions (pages 59–73): Chapter 6 The Problem of Dualism and the Division between the Vital and the Psychic Order (pages 74–76): Chapter 7 The Vital Revisited (pages 77–89): Chapter 8 Rebuilding the Vital Field (pages 90–100): Chapter 9 Body Memory and Know?How (pages 101–108): Chapter 10 Attachment and Sexuality (pages 109–118): Chapter 11 The Skin (pages 119–136): Chapter 12 Didier Anzieu and The Skin Ego (pages 137–146): Chapter 13 Permeable Skin (pages 147–153): Chapter 14 The Emergence of Skin as a Support Matrix (pages 154–161): Chapter 15 Skin Narratives (pages 162–172): Chapter 16 Skin Relation (pages 173–178): Chapter 17 Skin Writing and Touch as Analogous to Language (pages 179–188): Chapter 18 Psychosomatics and Conversion (pages 189–207):