Psychosomatics

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​A Presentation of Psychoanalytic Psychosomatics of the School of Paris

Jane McAdam Freud, Love and Myth

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  Psychosomatics, or the treatment of psychosomatic illness, offers a new approach to the ill person, and for that reason belongs to the history of medicine. Right from the beginning, there have been several conceptual currents contributing to the growth of medicine, among which the life of the mind has had a more or less significant place. The term ‘psychosomatic’ first appeared in the second half of the 19th century ... 
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Psychoanalytic Psychosomatics, by Claude Smadja Full text

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the Pioneers of the Psychanalytic Psychosomatics

Pierre Marty

Christian David

Michel de M'Uzan

Michel Fain

Texts and Publications on Psychosomatics

TextS in French

• De M’UZAN Michel, Le même et l’identique, dans De l’art à la mort, Gallimard, 1977.
• De M’UZAN Michel, Les esclaves de la quantité, dans La bouche de l’inconscient, Gallimard, 1994. Nouvelle Revue Française de Psychanalyse, nº 30, 1984.
• FAIN Michel, Prélude à la vie fantasmatique, Revue Française de Psychanalyse, nº 2-3, 1971.
• MARTY Pierre, M’UZAN M, de, DAVID C. L’investigation psychosomatique, Paris, PUF, 1963.
• MARTY Pierre, Les mouvements individuels de vie et de mort. Paris, Payot, 1976.
• MARTY Pierre, La psychosomatique de l’adulte, Paris, PUF, 1990.
• MARTY Pierre, Mentalisation et psychosomatique. Ed. Les Empêcheurs de Penser en Rond, 1991.
• SMADJA Claude, La vie opératoire, Paris, PUF, 2001.
• SZWEC Gérard, Les galériens volontaires. Paris, PUF, 2014

TEXTS in english

• Marty, P. (1958). The Allergic Object Relationship. Int. J. Psycho-Anal., 39:98-103. 

• Marty, P. (1968). A Major Process of Somatization: The Progressive Disorganization. Int. J. Psycho-Anal., 49:246-249. 

 

• Marty, P. (2010). The Narcissistic Difficulties Presented to the Observer by the Psychosomatic Problem. Int. J. Psycho-Anal., 91:347-360.

• Marilia Aisenstein and Claude Smadja (2010) The Narcissistic Difficulties Presented to the Observation by the Psychosomatic Problem Introduction to the Paper by Pierre Marty: The Narcissistic Difficulties Presented to the Observer by the Psychosomatic Problem 343. 

• Andre Green: Thoughts on the Paris School of Psychosomatics 1-46 in Aisenstein, M. & Rappoport de Aisemberg, E. (2010). Psychosomatics Today –A psychoanalytic Perspective. Karnac
• Aisenstein, M: The mysterious leap of the somatic into the psyche. 47-62, in Aisenstein, M. & Rappoport de Aisemberg, E. (2010). Psychosomatics Today –A psychoanalytic Perspective. Karnac


• Smadja,C.: The place of affect in the psychosomatic economy 145-162, in Aisenstein, M. & Rappoport de Aisemberg, E. (2010). Psychosomatics Today –A psychoanalytic Perspective. Karnac


• Szwec, G.: The capacity to say no and psychosomatic disorders in childhood, 163-180 Taylor, G.J: Symbolism, symbolization, and trauma in psychosomatic theory 181-200, in Aisenstein, M. & Rappoport de Aisemberg, E. (2010). Psychosomatics Today –A psychoanalytic Perspective. Karnac. 

 

• Birksted-Breen, D., Sara Flanders and Alain Gibeault. Ed.The New Library of Psychoanalysis, (2010) Reading French Psychoanalysis. London

articles :

1. Marty, P. & de M’Uzan,M. Operational Thinking (1963), 449-458 
2. Marty, P. Essential depression (1968), 459-462 

• Marty, P. (1958). The Allergic Object Relationship. Int. J. Psycho-Anal., 39:98-103. 

• Marty, P. (1968). A Major Process of Somatization: The Progressive Disorganization. Int. J. Psycho-Anal., 49:246-249. 

 

• Marty, P. (2010). The Narcissistic Difficulties Presented to the Observer by the Psychosomatic Problem. Int. J. Psycho-Anal., 91:347-360.

• Marilia Aisenstein and Claude Smadja (2010) The Narcissistic Difficulties Presented to the Observation by the Psychosomatic Problem Introduction to the Paper by Pierre Marty: The Narcissistic Difficulties Presented to the Observer by the Psychosomatic Problem 343. ​