![]() ![]() My curiosity about the dazzling variety of the world led me to the art and religion and literature of many cultures, and to explore these cultures through body/mind practice, such as yoga, goju ryu karate, and Japanese ink painting. ![]() My more than 20 years of participation in a countertransference supervision group with Art Robbins taught me to use my bodily sensations as an integral part of my psychoanalytic work. Francis Sommer Anderson, The Analytic Press, New York and London: 2008) explored psychoanalytic concepts within the context of various types of body work, such as yoga. And recently, Bodies in Treatment: The Unspoken Dimension (ed. Norton & Company, New York and London: 1989). Sigmund Freud sought for a neurobiological foundation for the complexities of the mind, inherent in drive theory and exemplified in “A Scientific Project” and boldly stated as “The ego is first and foremost a bodily ego.” Joyce McDougall explored mind/body oneness in Theaters of the Body (W.W. ![]() …and you think maybe you’ll trust him because he touched your perfect body with his mind.įrom the earliest days of psychoanalysis, mind and body have been inseparable. ![]()
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