Between skins : the body in psychoanalysis--contemporary developments /

• Main Author: Diamond, Nicola
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.
• Subjects: Body image.; Human body.; Somesthesia.; Body schema > Psychological aspects.; Mind and body.; Psychoanalysis.; PSYCHOLOGY > Personality.; Electronic books.

Between 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 co...

Table of Contents:

• pt. 1. The framework : neuroscience and interdisciplinary connections
• pt. 2. The vital order : moving away from interiority and biology as bedrock
• pt. 3. Exteriority : the body surface.