Part memoir, part clinical case, part theoretical investigation, this book searches for the body. Jamieson Webster traces conversion's shifting meanings in an intimate account of her own conversion from patient to psychoanalyst, as well as her continual struggle to apprehend the…
Conversion disorder--a psychiatric term that names the enigmatic transformation of psychic energy into bodily manifestations--offers a way to rethink the present. With so many people suffering from unexplained bodily symptoms; with so many seeking recourse to pharmacological tre…
From its peculiar birth in Freud's self-analysis to its current state of deep crisis, psychoanalysis has always been a practice that questions its own existence. Like the patients that risk themselves in this act of questioning - it is somehow upon this threatened ground that th…