Psychosomatics Today

Marilia Aisenstein is Member and Training Analyst of the Paris Psychoanalytical Society and of the Hellenik Psychoanalytical Society. A past President of the Paris Psychoanalytical Society, past President of IPSO, Paris Psychosomatic Institute, former European Representative to the Board, and former Chair of IPA International New Groups, she is the author of many papers and publications about psychosomatics and received the Bouvet Award in 1992. Elsa Rappoport de Aisemberg is Member and Training Analyst of the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association. She is former Vice-president of the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association, Member of the IPA Allied Centre Committee, past Chair of Scientific Colloquiums and Adviser for the Scientific Department of the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association, and Chair of the Research Group on Psychosomatics at the Argentine Psychoanalytic Association. She is the author of many papers and publications on psychosomatics.

Introduction; 1. Overflows in Theory and Clinical Practice; 2. Thoughts on the Paris School of Psychosomatics; 3. The Mysterious Leap of the Somatic into the Psyche; 4. Psychosomatics: The Role of the Unconscious Phantasy; 5. A Rash of a Different Colour: Somatopsychic Eruptions from the Other Side; 6. Adolescence: The Body as a Scenario for Non-Symbolized Dramas; 7. Psychosomatics Conditions in Contemporary Psychoanalysis; 8. Particular Vissicitudes of the Drive Confronted with Mourning: Sublimation and Somatization; 9. The Place of Affect in the Psychosomatic Economy; 10. The Capacity to Say No and Psychosomatic Disorders in Childhood; 11. Symbolism, Symbolization, and Trauma in Psychosomatic Theory; 12. From Physical Pain to an "Interactive Image": Notes on the Second Treatment Period of a Psychosomatic and Depressive Patient; 13. The Allergic Object Relation; Afterword