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Abstract This paper explores the age-old problem of the mind-body relationship by examining the phenomena of psychosomatic symptoms. It traces the development of several clinical concepts that are relevant to our understanding and treatment of patients with psychosomatic symptoms. These concepts include embodiment, alexithymia, affect development and disorders of the self. Brain-based research findings reinforce the contemporary relational turn of psychoanalytic psychology, shifting one’s lens to the intersubjective interaction within the consulting room. A confluence of findings from research and theory thus emerge, suggesting that affect development is an intersubjective experience subject to reconceptualization and change based on one’s relational experiences, including the clinical relationship. A case study illustrates how contemporary psychoanalytic thinking and research findings can be integrated and applied to our clinical practice.
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Psychoanalytic Social Work provides social work clinicians and clinical educators with highly informative and stimulating articles relevant to the practice of psychoanalytic social work with the individual client. Although a variety of social work publications now exist, none focus exclusively on the important clinical themes and dilemmas that occur in a psychoanalytic social work practice. Existing clinical publications in social work have tended to dilute or diminish the significance or the scope of psychoanalytic practice in various ways. Some social work journals focus partially on clinical practice and characteristically provide an equal, if not greater, emphasis upon social welfare policy and macropractice concerns.
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