The Bodily Unconscious in Psychoanalytic Technique

Sebastian Leikert is a psychoanalyst in Saarbrücken, Germany. He is a training analyst at the German Society for Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy, Psychosomatics and Depth Psychology (DGPT), and a member of the editorial boards of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis and The Psychoanalytic Quarterly.

1. Introduction: Psychoanalysis and Corporeality – The History of Avoidance 2. The Crack in the Self of Chronic Pain Patients: The Emotional Processes Involved in the Development of Psychosomatic Diseases and the Consequences for Treatment 3. Body–Mind Dissociation and Transference onto the Body 4. How To Begin? 5. Accidents of Seduction and the Theory of the Body 6. Affect Dialog, Affect Debris, and Encapsulated Body Engrams: Some Reflections on Psychoanalytic Technique with the Bodily Encoded Unconscious 7. "My Body Runs Alongside Me Like Something I Don’t Need." Bodily Sensations in the Development and Organization of Mental Structure 8. Mind the Gap: Mentalizing the Body 9. Corporeality and Dream-Talk 10. The Via Regia of the Rhizome: Paths in the Unconscious of the Psychosomatic Body 11. Mentalized Alterity: Psychodynamic Work with Bodily Countertransference