When the body speaks : the archetypes in the body

Edited by Phyllis Blakemore.

1 Archetypes and birth. 2 The little puppet: working with autistic defences in mother-infant psychotherapy. 3 The Jungian infant. 4 Naming the nameless: a way to stop acting out. 5 Defense of the self in a case of severe deprivation. 6 The shadow: how it develops in childhood. 7 The psychosoma and the archetypal field. 8 When the meaning gets lost in the body

'...applies Jungian concepts and theories to infant development to demonstrate how archetypal imagery formed in early life can permanently affect a person's psychology....shows how psychosomatic disturbances originate in the early stages of life through unregulated affects. It links Jung's concepts of the self and the archetypes to the concepts of the primary self as conceptualized by Fordham, as well as incorporating the work of other psychoanalysts such as Bion and Klein.'

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