Between Skins: The Body in Psychoanalysis - Contemporary Developments - Hardcover

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Dr 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.

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Between Skins presents a rigorous challenge to individualistic accounts of the body in psychoanalysis, and across related disciplines, in order to show how the body is social in nature. It forges interdisciplinary connections between psychoanalysis and the social sciences and demonstrates how somatic states and the social intersect in lived experience.

Drawing on philosophy, contemporary neurobiology, developmental research and a critical review of psychoanalytical literature, Nicola Diamond explores the ways in which bodily processes and skin experience are inseparable from the environmental context. She deals with the current impasses in the debates, the reduction to biological description in the neurosciences, the dualistic tendency to mentalist reductionism in psychoanalysis, and a need to account for the relation between biology and complex social processes. She opens up an understanding of language and the crucial role it plays in bodily development. Her response is to propose a rigorously re-worked   &;relational body' as a way out of the impasses historically present in psychoanalysis.

In exploring the way the body has been viewed within psychoanalysis, Diamond makes reference to Freudian, Anglo-American and French thought. The book moves towards contemporary developments and makes explicit how recent research emerging out of developmental psychology and neuroscience challenges traditional psychoanalytical understandings of the body, with references throughout to clinical examples and everyday experiences.

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Between Skins presents a rigorous challenge to individualistic accounts of the body in psychoanalysis, and across related disciplines, in order to show how the body is social in nature. It forges interdisciplinary connections between psychoanalysis and the social sciences and demonstrates how somatic states and the social intersect in lived experience.
 
Drawing on philosophy, contemporary neurobiology, developmental research and a critical review of psychoanalytical literature, Nicola Diamond explores the ways in which bodily processes and skin experience are inseparable from the environmental context. She deals with the current impasses in the debates, the reduction to biological description in the neurosciences, the dualistic tendency to mentalist reductionism in psychoanalysis, and a need to account for the relation between biology and complex social processes. She opens up an understanding of language and the crucial role it plays in bodily development. Her response is to propose a rigorously re-worked 'relational body' as a way out of the impasses historically present in psychoanalysis.
 
In exploring the way the body has been viewed within psychoanalysis, Diamond makes reference to Freudian, Anglo-American and French thought. The book moves towards contemporary developments and makes explicit how recent research emerging out of developmental psychology and neuroscience challenges traditional psychoanalytical understandings of the body, with references throughout to clinical examples and everyday experiences.