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OverviewBetween 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 Brings together a philosophical phenomenological account of body experience with key concepts from psychoanalysis, developmental research and neuroscience Responds to a growing interest in the body and psychoanalysis, and considers some limitations in neuro-biological accounts of brain-body processes for psychoanalytical understanding Full Product DetailsAuthor: Nicola DiamondPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell Dimensions: Width: 16.10cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.436kg ISBN: 9780470019429ISBN 10: 0470019425 Pages: 240 Publication Date: 10 May 2013 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Awaiting stock The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of ContentsReviewsSumming Up: Recommended. Graduate, research, and professional collections. ( Choice , 1 November 2013) How successful Diamond is in solving the dilemmas she detects is an open question, but her questions and thinking are intelligent and searching, and this book will be good for teaching and dialogue in the field. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate, research, and professional collections. (Choice, 1 November 2013) Author InformationDr Nicola Diamond is a Senior Lecturer in Psychosocial Studies, University of East London, and teaches at the Tavistock Clinic. She is also a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist with the British Association of Psychotherapists (British Psychoanalytic Council registered) in private practice, and runs a clinic at The Helen Bamber Foundation; before this she worked as a Psychotherapist at the Women's Therapy Centre in London. She is the co-author of Attachment and Intersubjectivity (with Mario Marrone, 2003) and has published widely in the field. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |