COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTORS; SERIES EDITOR'S PREFACE; CHAPTER ONE A tale of two theories; CHAPTER TWO Non-mentalizing and non-symbolizing psychic functions and central sensitization in psychosomatic disorders; CHAPTER THREE Just do it! Surgery as psychosomatic action; CHAPTER FOUR Psychosomatic events: self-care as technology of the self; CHAPTER FIVE When words are unspeakable: a bridge beyond the silence; CHAPTER SIX Psychosomatic illness in a claustro-agoraphobic patient
CHAPTER SEVEN Plight of the imposter: the embodied transference and countertransference in the analysis of a woman with a congenital deformityCHAPTER EIGHT The realization of meaning: superego analysis and psychosomatic symptoms; INDEX