Body as Psychoanalytic Object: Clinical Applications from Winnicott to Bion and Beyond

Winner of the 2022 Gradiva® Award for Best Edited Book!

This book explores the role of bodily phenomena in mental life and in the psychoanalytic encounter, encouraging further dialog within psychoanalysis, philosophy, and the humanities, and contributing new clinical and theoretical perspectives to the recent resurgence of psychoanalytic interest in the body.

Presented in six parts in which diverse meanings are explored, Body as Psychoanalytic Object focuses on the clinical psychoanalytic enc...