 |
|
|
Item Details
| Title:
|
UNDER THE SKIN
A PSYCHOANALYTIC STUDY OF BODY MODIFICATION |
| By: |
Alessandra Lemma |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
|
£39.99 |
| Our price: |
£35.99 |
| Discount: |
|
| You save:
|
£4.00 |
|
|
|
|
|
| ISBN 10: |
0415485703 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780415485708 |
| Availability: |
Usually dispatched within 3-5 days.
 Delivery
rates
|
| Stock: |
Currently 2 available |
| Publisher: |
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
17 February, 2010 |
| Series: |
The New Library of Psychoanalysis 'Beyond the Couch' Series |
| Pages: |
216 |
| Description: |
Considers why people pierce, tattoo, cosmetically enhance, or otherwise modify their body, from a psychoanalytic perspective, discussing how the therapist can understand and help individuals who feel body modification is necessary. |
| Synopsis: |
Alessandra Lemma - Winner of the Levy-Goldfarb Award for Child Psychoanalysis! Under the Skin considers the motivation behind why people pierce, tattoo, cosmetically enhance, or otherwise modify their body, from a psychoanalytic perspective. It discusses how the therapist can understand and help individuals for whom the manipulation of the body is felt to be psychically necessary, regardless of whether the process of modification causes pain. In this book, psychoanalyst Alessandra Lemma draws on her work in the consulting room, as well as films, fiction, art and clinical research to suggest that the motivation for extensively modifying the surface of the body, and being excessively preoccupied with its appearance, comes from the person's internal world - under their skin. Topics covered include: * body image disturbance * appearance anxiety * body dysmorphic disorder * the psychological function of cosmetic surgery, tattooing, piercing, and scarification.Under the Skin provides a detailed study of the challenges posed by our embodied nature through an exploration of the unconscious phantasies that underlie the need for body modification, making it essential reading for all clinicians working with those who are preoccupied with their appearance and modify their bodies including psychotherapists, counsellors, psychiatrists and psychologists. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Routledge |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
No Cheese, Please!
A fun picture book for children with food allergies - full of friendship and super-cute characters!Little Mo the mouse is having a birthday party.
|
My Brother Is a Superhero
Luke is massively annoyed about this, but when Zack is kidnapped by his arch-nemesis, Luke and his friends have only five days to find him and save the world...
|
|
|
|
|