Under the Skin: A Psychoanalytic Study of Body Modification

By Alessandra Lemma

Book Overview

Alessandra Lemma - Winner of the Levy-Goldfarb Award for Child Psychoanalysis

Under the Skin considers why people pierce, tattoo, cosmetically enhance, or otherwise modify their body, from a psychoanalytic perspective, discussing how the therapist can understand and help individuals who feel body modification is necessary.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 041548569X
• ISBN13: 9780415485692
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"