{"product_id":"lost-to-desire-wolfgang-lassmann-9781032132600","title":"Lost to Desire: The ﾉcole Psychosomatique de Paris and its Encounter With Patients Who Do Not Thrive","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book covers the work of psychoanalysts in post WWII France with patients beset by somatic problems with little manifest fantasy life, and how their concept of \u003cem\u003eop駻atoire\u003c\/em\u003e continues to inform the theory and practice of working with patients in crisis. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe author explores what the new concept has elicited in a community of practitioners - close to the \u003cem\u003eﾉcole Psychosomatique de Paris\u003c\/em\u003e - over a period of some sixty years. As a 'skin for thought' it facilitated change while preserving coherence, gradually beginning to attract further considerations. Important themes have included: the early groundwork necessary for the configuration of fantasy, the importance of a shared imaginary, the role of denial and obliterated memories as a bond between people, emergency measures of a Me cut off from revitalisation, the effects of the rhythms and atmosphere at the workplace on family life, and the consequences of a crisis suppressed for lack of a holding frame. As psychoanalytic discourse adapted to the challenges, the original perspective changed aspect, moving from a systematic evaluation of what the patients did not produce to what the analyst had to fill in to make sense of the situation. Clashing with the terrain, French psychoanalysts raised important problems about psychic anaemia that are stimulating and deserve cross-cultural discussion. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis book will appeal to psychoanalysts in practice and training who wish to learn more about this ground-breaking work on memory and trauma, and how to apply it to their own practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Wolfgang Lassmann\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1032132604\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781032132600\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/29\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.03lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.70d","brand":"Wolfgang Lassmann","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43982214693119,"sku":"9781032132600","price":42.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d2b34cfb-ee57-4a87-b1f8-62faee5297c1.jpg?v=1683259871","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/lost-to-desire-wolfgang-lassmann-9781032132600","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}