Book Announcement by Caron Harrang (USA), Drew Tillotson (USA) and Nancy C. Winters (USA)
This Routledge title explores the role of bodily phenomena in mental life and in the psychoanalytic encounter, encouraging further dialogue within psychoanalysis, philosophy and the humanities, and contributing new clinical and theoretical perspectives to the recent resurgence of psychoanalytic interest in the body.
Presented in six parts in which diverse meanings are explored, Body as Psychoanalytic Object focuses on the clinical psychoanalytic encounter and the body as object of psychoanalytic inquiry, spanning from the prenatal experience to death. In this volume co-edited by Caron Harrang, Drew Tillotson and Nancy C. Winters, contributors explore key themes including mind–body relations in Winnicott, Bion and beyond; the oneiric body; the nascent body in early object relations; body and psychosensory experience; body in breakdown; and body in virtual space. With clinical vignettes throughout, each chapter provides unique insight into how different analysts theoretically conceive and clinically work with bodily phenomena.
Building on the thinking of Winnicott and Bion as well as contributions from French psychoanalysis, Body as Psychoanalytic Object offers a way forward in a body-based understanding of object relations theory.
Caron Harrang, LICSW, FIPA, BCPsa is a board-certified, IPA training and supervising psychoanalyst on faculty at Northwestern Psychoanalytic Society and Institute who maintains a full-time private practice in Seattle. Publications include “Painting Poppies: On the Relationship Between Concrete and Metaphorical Thinking” (2012); “Psychic Skin and Narcissistic Rage: Reflections on Almodóvar’s The Skin I Live In” (2012); From Reverie to Interpretation: Transforming Thought into the Action of Psychoanalysis (Eds. D. Blue & C. Harrang, 2016); and “River to Rapids: Speaking to the Body in Terms the Body Can Understand” in this volume.
Drew Tillotson, PsyD, FIPA, BCPsa is a board-certified psychoanalyst in private practice in San Francisco. He is a graduate and Past President of the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California (PINC), Past Vice-President of the North American Psychoanalytic Confederation (NAPsaC) and teaches widely in the Bay Area. He has published on aging and intercultural phenomena and contributed book reviews for Fort Da and the International Journal of Psychoanalysis. He is also a chapter author for Routledge’s forthcoming Braving the Erotic Field in the Treatment of Adolescents and Children, edited by Mary T. Brady, PhD.
Nancy C. Winters, MD, FIPA, ABPsa is an adult and child psychiatrist and training/supervising psychoanalyst at the Oregon Psychoanalytic Institute, Portland and the Northwest Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, Seattle. She maintains a full-time psychoanalytic practice in Portland. She is a clinical professor at the Oregon Health & Science University where she was previously full professor and residency director of child and adolescent psychiatry. Publications include Child and Adolescent Systems of Care (Eds. Pumariega and Winters), numerous articles on adolescent depression, early childhood eating issues and child assessment, and “Autoimmunity as a Response to Analytic Change” in this volume.
Caron Harrang, LICSW, FIPA
Seattle, Washington
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Drew Tillotson, Psy.D., FIPA, BCPsa
San Francisco, California
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Nancy C Winters, MD, FIPA, ABPsa
Portland, Oregon
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