New Body-Mind Approach

Jean Benjamin Stora is a psychoanalyst and psychosomatician, and a consultant in psychosomatics at la Pitie-Salpetriere Hospital, Paris. In 2006 he established the university diploma in integrative psychosomatics, psychoanalysis, medicine and the neurosciences, which he co-directs at the Faculte de Medecine, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris 6. He was president of the Pierre Marty Institute of Psychosomatics from 1989 to 1992, and of the Societe Francaise de Medecine Psychosomatique from 2000 to 2002. He is the author of many books, including 'Le Stress, Quand le corps prend la releve: stress traumatismes et maladies somatiques, Vivre avec une greffe: accueillir l'autre, Neuropsychanalyse, Controverses et Dialogues, When the Body Displaces the Mind', and 'La nouvelle approche psychosomatique: cas cliniques'.

• Preface , Foreword , Foreword , Introduction , Marie-Laure and metabolic syndrome: relations between the psychic apparatus and the hypothalamic axis , Chloé: repairing the psychic apparatus—neuronal tumour, neuropsychoanalysis, or neuropsychosomatics? , Claude: “The Little Prince’s heartache” , A hypochondriac patient—the enigma of Damien’s somatic problems , Lucien: type 2 diabetic; the patient’s cultural dimension, denial of illness and narcissistic problematic , Alicia: “when I’ve had the transplant, will I feel better?” , The heart problems of a “famous patient” , Conclusion