Alessandra Lemma - Winner of the Levy-Goldfarb Award for Child
Psychoanalysis
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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