the body in psychoanalysis--contemporary developments /
Nicola Diamond
First edition
First edition
1308
1 online resource (234 pages)
Edition statement from running title area
Includes bibliographical references and index
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