The Bodily Unconscious in Psychoanalytic Technique

The Bodily Unconscious in Psychoanalytic Technique explores how corporeality and body memory can be more strongly integrated into psychoanalytic work.

Sebastian Leikert is a psychoanalyst in Saarbrücken, Germany. He is a training analyst at the German Society for Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy, Psychosomatics and Depth Psychology (DGPT), and a member of the editorial boards of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis and The Psychoanalytic Quarterly.

1. Introduction: Psychoanalysis and Corporeality - The History of Avoidance 2. The Crack in the Self of Chronic Pain Patients: The Emotional Processes Involved in the Development of Psychosomatic Diseases and the Consequences for Treatment 3. Body-Mind Dissociation and Transference onto the Body 4. How To Begin? 5. Accidents of Seduction and the Theory of the Body 6. Affect Dialog, Affect Debris, and Encapsulated Body Engrams: Some Reflections on Psychoanalytic Technique with the Bodily Encoded Unconscious 7. "My Body Runs Alongside Me Like Something I Don't Need." Bodily Sensations in the Development and Organization of Mental Structure 8. Mind the Gap: Mentalizing the Body 9. Corporeality and Dream-Talk 10. The Via Regia of the Rhizome: Paths in the Unconscious of the Psychosomatic Body 11. Mentalized Alterity: Psychodynamic Work with Bodily Countertransference