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Dialogues Between Psychoanalysis and Architecture explores the multisensory space of therapy, real or virtual, and how important it is in providing the container for the therapeutic relationship and process.
List of contents
Introduction Part One: The Relational Space of the Consulting Room Through the Senses 1. In the Beginning is Smell: The Sense of Belonging and Remembering and the Impact of its Loss in Psychotherapy 2. Hearing Other Voices: The Ear as the Eye of Invisible Class Discrimination 3. Touching Nostalgia and Regret When Lying to Tell the Truth on the Couch 4. The Therapy Consulting Room in a Medical Setting as Experienced Through the Senses 5. Unfurling Ariadne's Thread: Psychic Connections and the Engagement of the 'Sixth Sense' in the Consulting Room Part Two: Dialogues Between Architecture and Psychoanalysis 6. On the Architect's Couch: Elective Affinities Between Architecture and Psychoanalysis 7. Dialogues Between Architecture and Psychotherapy: Revisiting Four Consulting Rooms Part Three: The Online Consulting Room During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond 8. The Screen Therapy Room: Real Flowers in a Digital Vase 9. Sensual Deprivation and Therapy During the Covid-19 Pandemic 10. Observing and Consulting in Digital Aquariums
About the author
Christina Moutsou, Ph.D., is a psychoanalytic therapist, social anthropologist and author. She has worked as a lecturer and supervisor in various academic institutions and organisations, and in private practice in London for more than 20 years. Her publications include Fictional Clinical Narratives in Relational Psychoanalysis (2018), and her debut novel, Layers (2018).
Summary
Dialogues Between Psychoanalysis and Architecture explores the multisensory space of therapy, real or virtual, and how important it is in providing the container for the therapeutic relationship and process.
