Body Talk

Looking and Being Looked at in Psychotherapy

Inbunden, Engelska, 2000

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An increasing number of patients in psychotherapy, male and female alike, express anxieties and obsessive concerns about their bodies—thinness, facial features, being toned, or other aspects of their appearance. Less concerned with issues of gender and sexuality than with the narcissistic cathexis of the body and ways of shoring up the body ego, these patients require a specific responsiveness from clinicians. Dr. Janice Lieberman recommends that the traditional emphasis placed on patients speaking and therapists listening be balanced with an increased awareness and understanding of the many visual cues and communications exchanged in therapy. Stressing the important role of vision in the development of identity formation and self-esteem, she discusses such issues as mirroring, the gaze, the gleam in the eye, feeling invisible or falsely mirrored, and the learning early on to attach positive and negative values to one's appearance as they become manifest in the therapeutic relationship. These patients use the therapist as a spectator whose focus on their bodies helps supplement insufficient cathexis and repair feelings of deficit. Amply illustrated with clinical vignettes, Dr. Lieberman's treatment of patients who come to therapy with heightened narcissistic body awareness is both informative and instructive.

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Utgivningsdatum2000-08-01
Mått164 x 235 x 26 mm
Vikt599 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor305
FörlagJason Aronson Publishers
ISBN9780765702586

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Janice S. Lieberman, Ph.D. , is in the private practice of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic therapy in New York City. She is a faculty member and a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR). She serves on the editorial board of The American Psychoanalyst, is co-author of The Many Faces of Deceit: Omissions, Lies, and Disguise in Psychotherapy, and has published numerous articles in professional journals.

In Body Talk, Dr. Lieberman has produced a book that is scholarly, clinically relevant, and accessible. In focusing on the visual, a neglected aspect of psychotherapy, she educates the reader about looking, mirrors, self-image, the therapists's vulnerability to being observed, and the need to carefully observe and respond to visual aspects of patients. Their focus on their own bodies and the bodies of their partners needs to be understood in its own terms, rather than as metaphors. The author recommends an interactive, interpersonal approach to effectively engage these patients, and demonstrates with multiple clinical examples the impact of such responsiveness. This book, essential reading for clinicians working with body-obsessed individuals, also offers technical recommendations for the broader range of patients who have limited ability to think in terms of psychological dynamics.