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"It is high time for clinicians to recognise that the body matters. This book is a brilliant illustration of how psychoanalytic therapy can illuminate our struggles with the physicality of our being and suggests effective solutions for the clinical management of these. With this book, Alessandra Lemma has established herself as one of the most original and creative contributors to psychoanalytic psychotherapy. The book is replete with arresting clinical insights and provides innovative theoretical integration that the field concerned with the mind in the body has lacked for a generation." - Peter Fonagy, Freud Memorial Professor of Psychoanalysis, University College London
"Beautifully written, this book is easily approachable by a large spectrum of readers while also addressing some deeply psychoanalytic and clinical issues. By discussing specific unconscious phantasies and the hatred of reality at work in the compelling need to modify the surface of the body, the book introduces an important psychoanalytic perspective on the complex and delicate role of early maternal responsiveness in development." - Dana Birksted-Breen, Training Psychoanalyst; Joint Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Psychoanalysis
"Under the Skin, is unique as an in depth psychoanalytic study of body modification, and needs to be recognized and commended for its insightfulness and the comprehensive integration of psychoanalysis with cultural studies, literature, art, and film. It is a powerful, well written treatise in the growing field of body modification....Lemma's mind, like the bodies she investigates, is worthy of exploring as she takes us on this journey through fascinating terrain. - Melanie Suchet, Ph.D., DIVISION/Review Vol.1., No. 1
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Under the Skin considers the motivation behind why people pierce, tattoo, cosmetically enhance, or otherwise modify their body, from a psychoanalytic perspective. It discusses how the therapist can understand and help individuals for whom the manipulation of the body is felt to be psychically necessary, regardless of whether the process of modification causes pain.
In this book, psychoanalyst Alessandra Lemma draws on her work in the consulting room, as well as films, fiction, art and clinical research to suggest that the motivation for extensively modifying the surface of the body, and being excessively preoccupied with its appearance, comes from the person’s internal world – under their skin. Topics covered include:
- body image disturbance
- appearance anxiety
- body dysmorphic disorder
- the psychological function of cosmetic surgery, tattooing, piercing, and scarification.
Under the Skin provides a detailed study of the challenges posed by our embodied nature through an exploration of the unconscious phantasies that underlie the need for body modification, making it essential reading for all clinicians working with those who are preoccupied with their appearance and modify their bodies including psychotherapists, counsellors, psychiatrists and psychologists.
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The case histories are well documented, concise, and illuminating; they are very interesting from a psychoanalytic perspective.
As a therapist this book has informed and supported my understanding of this subject area.
I would encourage all those in the helping professions to read this publication
"Importantly, at the intersection of the first stirrings of desire, the little boy and little girl have an asymmetrical experience in relation to the mother. The little boy is, at birth, exposed to the opposite sex. In this sense desire may flow more easily in the dyad... By contrast the little girl, who is not an Oedipal object for the mother, may feel that she simply cannot get enough positive investment in her bodily self, that she cannot elicit the mother's desire enough, if at all, to shore up her quota of desirability. Instead she has to wait for her turn when, and if, her relationship with her father is more accesible to her." (Lemma, 2010)
Sadly, this view is imbued with the heteronormative assumption that the mother, father and child are heterosexual. Even if the constituent elements of a dyad/triad are more polarised towards a heterosexual position within a continuum of sexuality, sexuality is not a fixed state of being and "desire" does not circumscribe itself to the subject/object's gendered/sexual roles. A study on mothers/fathers' desires/fantasies/intrusions towards their children would hopefully illuminate us further.
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