The Unconscious Body Image

The Unconscious Body Image provides a unique view of the links between physical and psychic development, offering insight into psychosomatic symptoms and child development. It describes how unconscious mental images of the body and its functioning impact subjects' feelings and ideas of themselves, and how emotions and ideas impact the body's functioning through these images. It also presents Doltos view of the development of mind in relation to unconscious body images generated at each stage of development and ideas about psychic castration at each stage, filling a gap in psychoanalytic understanding of the mental integration of social law.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 252 pages
Publication date: 30 December 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

The Unconscious Body Image presents a groundbreaking perspective on the intricate connections between physical and psychic development, offering a fresh understanding of psychosomatic symptoms and child development. Françoise Dolto delves into the profound influence that unconscious mental images of the body and its functioning have on individuals' feelings and self-perceptions, while also exploring how emotions and ideas can impact the body's functioning through these unconscious images. Additionally, the book explores Dolto's view of the development of the mind in relation to unconscious body images generated at each stage of development, including oral, anal, genital, latency, and puberty. It also discusses ideas about psychic castration at each developmental stage and children's socialization, filling a significant gap in psychoanalytic understanding of the mental integration of social law. This comprehensive work will be an invaluable resource for psychoanalysts in practice and training, particularly those working with children, psychoanalytic psychotherapists, and psychodynamic practitioners in the social sciences, childcare, and education.

Weight: 485g
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032320380