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Influenced by the groundbreaking work of Wilfred Bion,
The Somato-Psychic Realm: Analytic Receptivity and Resonance sees 10 internationally acclaimed psychoanalysts explore the complex interrelationship between our psychic and somatic selves, and highlight its promising riches and devastating disruptions.
List of contents
Foreword by Patrick Miller
Chapter 1: The breath of life: Bion's concept of the proto-mental
Chapter 2: Circling the nameless: An attempt at an impossible approach
Chapter 3: To feel in my flesh: Receptivity, resonance and the beta screen
Chapter 4: Bizarre bodily delusions
Chapter 5: Reaching the body through the mind: A model and its implications
Chapter 6: Being totally in the dark: On working analytically within the depths of the great unknown of psychic catastrophe
Chapter 7: A personal perspective on the somato-psychic realm based on Bion's contributions
Chapter 8: The primordial mind and the body: The "No-body" and being a body
Chapter 9: Perceptual Identification as analytic receptivity of unrepresented and dissociative states
Conclusion
About the author
David G. Power is a founding member of The Boston Group for Psychoanalytic Studies (BGPS), a past President, Supervisory and Teaching Analyst at the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis and on the faculty of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. With Howard Levine, he co-edited Engaging Primitive Anxieties of the Emerging Self (2017). He maintains a private practice in psychoanalysis, psychotherapy and supervision in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Dolan Power is a founding member of the Boston Group for Psychoanalytic Studies, Past President, Supervisory and Teaching Analyst at the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis and on the Faculty of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. She was awarded the Francis Tustin Memorial Prize in 2011 for her paper "The Use of the Analyst as an Autistic Shape" (IJP 2016). She maintains a private practice in psychoanalysis, consultation and supervision in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Summary
Influenced by the groundbreaking work of Wilfred Bion, The Somato-Psychic Realm: Analytic Receptivity and Resonance sees 10 internationally acclaimed psychoanalysts explore the complex interrelationship between our psychic and somatic selves, and highlight its promising riches and devastating disruptions.
