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 the motivation behind why people pierce, tattoo, cosmetically enhance, or otherwise modify their body, from a psychoanalytic perspective. It discusses how the therapist can understand and help individuals for whom the manipulation of the body is felt to be psychically necessary, regardless of whether the process of modification causes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415485703
• ISBN13: 9780415485708
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"