Conversion Disorder: Listening to the Body in Psychoanalysis Webster Jamieson
Conversion Disorder: Listening to the Body in Psychoanalysis Webster Jamieson Conversion disorder--a psychiatric term that names the enigmatic transformation of psychic energy into bodily…
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Conversion Disorder: Listening to the Body in Psychoanalysis Webster Jamieson
Conversion disorder--a psychiatric term that names the enigmatic transformation of psychic energy into bodily manifestations--offers a way to rethink the present. Is it a psychopathological entity; a crossroads for the cultural, political, and biological in the form of care; or the foundation of psychoanalytic work on the question of sexuality? With so many people suffering from unexplained bodily symptoms; with so many seeking recourse to pharmacological treatments or bodily modification; with young men and women seemingly willing to direct violence toward anybody, including themselves--a radical disordering in culture insists on the level of the body.Part memoir, part clinical case, part theoretical investigation, this book searches for the body.
Jamieson Webster traces conversion's shifting meanings--in religious, economic, and even chemical processes--revisiting the work of
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