Book description
"Skin in Psychoanalysis" is an important theoretical
contribution, revising several authors starting with Freud in whose
writing we can now discover multiple direct or indirect references to
the skin. It adopts a decidedly complex point of view regarding the skin
here: the skin as source, the skin as object, the skin as protection and
as a way of entrance, as contact and as contagion, the skin 'for two'
within the relationship with the mother, the skin as envelope and as
support, as a shell presented as 'second skin', as demarcation of
individuality, as a place of inscription of non-verbal memories, toxic
envelops and so on. Also, being the result of more than fifteen years of
work with dermatologists and patients with skin diseases, psoriasis in
particular, the book can be seen as a serious proposal for
interdisciplinary work between dermatologists and psychoanalysts.
