The Psychosomatic Therapy Casebook: Stories from the Intersection of Mind and Body
Book Details
- Publisher : Phoenix Publishing House
- Published : 2023
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 224
- Category :
Individual Psychotherapy - Category 2 :
Clinical Psychology - Catalogue No : 97102
- ISBN 13 : 9781800131446
- ISBN 10 : 9781800131
Reviews and Endorsements
‘Jean Benjamin Stora was President of the Paris Psychosomatic School in the 1990s. Subsequently, his work at the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital led him to develop a new discipline, integrative psychosomatics. It was based on a scientific model called “metapsychosomatics”, which supports the tension of knowledge between three disciplines: biomedicine, neuroscience and metapsychology. Following on from his previous works, this book explains the model and its paradigm in which the individual is perceived and investigated as a whole, in other words, as a “psychosomatic unit”. Through fifteen clinical cases, Stora exposes the clinical and therapeutic orientations at play. This is an important book for doctors, clinicians, and psychological practitioners. It carries an obvious yet often overlooked message: that the care of patients should not focus solely on the sick organ or biological system as separate from mind and spirit, but should also focus on taking care of the person behind the illness.’
Dr L. Naccache, Professor at the Psychosomatic School of the Pitié-Salpêtrière