David W. Krueger illustrates a novel synthesis of fundamental psychodynamic principles with evolving advances in developmental, self, neuropsychological, and attachment theories. Focusing on action symptoms, self object experiences, gender issues, embodiment, somatic symptoms, affect regulation, and ego states, the theoretical innovations are illustrated by vivid case material. He introduces treatment inroads enabling clinicians to hear and articulate arcane messages spoken in metaphor, actualized in symptoms, and encrypted in the body. A fresh conceptualization from an original thinker, Integrating Body Self and Psychological Self broadens our understanding of the mind and body interplay in the clinical exchange.

PrefaceIntroductionPart One: Body Self and Psychological Self DevelopmentChapter 1. Body Self in Psychological Self DevelopmentChapter 2. Body Self Developmental DisruptionsChapter 3. The Gendered Body Self Chapter 4. MindbrainChapter 5. Body Mind Memory in Development and in the Clinical ExchangePart Two: Developmental and Clinical IntegrationChapter 6. Somatic Symptoms: Conversion, Psychosomatic, Somatic Action, and Somatic MemoriesChapter 7. Action SymptomsChapter 8. True Body Self/False Body Self Chapter 9. Dissociation, Trauma and DevelopmentPart Three: Clinical Applications Chapter 10. Clinical Considerations in DissociationChapter 11. Embodiment in Psychoanalysis: The Body Self in Development, in Action Symptoms, and Transference/CountertransfereceChapter 12. Psychoanalysis: The Verbal ExchangeChapter 13. Psychoanalysis: The Nonverbal ExchangeChapter 14. Creating a New Story: Retranscripting the MindbrainReferencesIndex