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By viewing psychoanalysis through the lens of embodiment, Brothers and Sletvold suggest a shift away from traditional concept-based theory and offer new ways to understand traumatic experiences, to describe the therapeutic exchange and to enhance the supervisory process.
List of contents
Bodies in Time: An Introduction 1. Embodied Language and the Silence Between the Words 2. Foreign Bodies: From Interpretation to Translation 3. Traumatized Bodies 4. Embodying Dissociation 5. Memory, Narrative and the Embodiment of Transference 6. Resistance or the Lack of Freedom to Change 7. The Us-Them Binary of Fascist Experience 8. Body-Based Supervision 9. Why not the Body? Coda Appendix A: The Patient's Perception of the Analyst Appendix B: Some Past and Present Views on Embodiment
About the author
Doris Brothers is a co-founder of the Training and Research in Intersubjective Self Psychology Foundation. She serves on the council of the International Association for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology and has previously published three books, including
Toward a Psychology of Uncertainty: Trauma-Centered Psychoanalysis. She practices in New York and Oslo.
Jon Sletvold is the founding board director of the Norwegian Character Analytic Institute. He has published books and articles on the role of the body in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. He is the author of
The Embodied Analyst: From Freud and Reich to Relationality (2014), winner of the Gradiva Award in 2015.
Summary
By viewing psychoanalysis through the lens of embodiment, Brothers and Sletvold suggest a shift away from traditional concept-based theory and offer new ways to understand traumatic experiences, to describe the therapeutic exchange and to enhance the supervisory process.
