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Primitive Bodily Communications in Psychotherapy: Embodied Expressions of a Disembodied Psyche

Editor : Raffaella Hilty

Table of Contents

About the authors
Acknowledgements
Foreword by Susie Orbach
Use of terms
Introduction by Raffaella Hilty

1.The spitting patient: speaking with sputum and free-associating with saliva
Brett Kahr

2. Working with primitive bodily communications in the context of unbearable trauma in non-verbal patients
Valerie Sinason

3. The sound of silence. Working with people with an intellectual disability who self-harm
David O’Driscoll

4. Patients who smell: olfactory communication and the mephitic other
Gabrielle Brown

5. Body odour in a psychoanalytic treatment: bridge or drawbridge to a troubled past?
Raffaella Hilty

6. In corpore inventitur: embodied countertransference and the process of unconscious somatic communication
Salvatore Martini

7. Revisiting the entropic body: when the body is the canvas
Tom Wooldridge

8. When the psyche shreds and the body takes over
William F. Cornell

9. Responding to trauma-based communication in psychotherapy
Mark Linington

References
Index