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When the Body Displaces the Mind: Stress, Trauma and Somatic Disease

Author(s) : Jean Benjamin Stora

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'The boundaries between disciplines have recently been seriously challenged in the neurosciences. This has resulted, among other things, in a realisation that the brain cannot be understood in isolation from other bodily organs. This realisation, in turn, has produced important advances in neuro-endocrinology and neuro-immunology, to mention only the obvious instances. But certainly one of the most significant advances brought about by this development has been in the scientific understanding of emotion. Few neuroscientists today would deny that the brain mechanisms of emotion (and drive) are centrally embedded in brain: body relationships.

It is very much to the credit of contemporary neuroscience that it has found a place for psychoanalysis in this interdisciplinary vortex, and it is likewise fortunate indeed that psychoanalysis has been able to make some significant contributions to the avalanche of neuroscientific discoveries that are now reported almost daily. These contributions have been limited almost exclusively to revealing the
role of unconscious emotional processes in so-called neurobehavioural (or neuropsychological) syndromes. We therefore have reason to be grateful to Professor Stora for this pioneering volume, in which he makes a first neuro-psychoanalytic foray into the fascinating and important field of psychosomatic medicine. In this spirit, I unequivocally recommend his work to prospective readers, and encourage his colleagues to take up the many scientific challenges he here poses for them.'
- From the foreword by Mark Solms