01727    a2200265   4500001001100000005001700011008003900028020001800067037003600085040000700121041000800128072001600136072001600152072001400168072001400182072002100196072002100217072002000238100002000258245005500278250000600333260003200339300001000371520108000381178220169620250317100352.0250312042014GB                   eng    a9781782201694  bTaylor & FranciscGBP 22.99fBB  a01  aeng7 aMKMT2thema7 aJMAF2thema7 aMMJT2bic7 aJMAF2bic7 aPSY0000002bisac7 aPSY0360002bisac7 a616.85252bisac1 aDavid Rosenfeld10aBody SpeaksbBody Image Delusions and Hypochondria  a1  aOxfordbRoutledgec20140905  a104 p  bThis book explores the author's pioneering work with severely disturbed patients, to show what it means to work and think as a psychoanalyst about transference and the internal world of a psychotic patient, with all the difficulties involved in continuing to treat and engage with even severely ill patients. As the author suggests, to be a psychoanalyst is to think about transference, the patient's internal world and projective identifications onto the therapist and onto persons in the external world. In particular, the author examines patients who express their mental state through fantasies about their body image. For example, the fantasy of an emptying of the self is discussed through the case of the patient Pierre, who asserts that he has no more blood or liquids in his body. Similarly, the fantasies of a young man who says that bats are flying out of his cheeks incarnate the anxiety of his first months of life expressed through his body. Indeed, the author's particular focus is on the importance of the first months and years in the life of these patients.